Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com>: >For example, when you want to delete the whole dir in emacs, it >prompts this message: “Recursive delete of xx? (y or n) ”.
AFAICS what emacs calls "recursive delete" is what the ordinary person would simply call "delete". Presumably the non-recursive delete is called simply "delete" but is actually something more complicated than delete, and you're supposed to know what that is. Also (I'm speculating) a recursive delete means carrying out the (ordinary, non-recursive) delete process on sub-directories, recursively. The result of which is, put simply, to delete the directory. I find all this somewhat arcane. Questioning the precise suitability of the word "recursive" seems like a quibble. -- Mike Barnes Cheshire, England -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
