Canop
Safer alternative to default rm -rf command
The default behavior of typing :rm or rm followed by Enter is concerning. If you have the wrong thing highlighted, like a folder full of important files, it will run rm -rf on that folder and delete everything in it without prompting you.
I changed my rm command to rm -i. May I suggest either not having a default rm command (like how the touch verb is commented out for creating new files) or choosing something safer? The standard rm shell command without any options would be fine. Being momentarily confused about not being able to delete a directory is better than accidentally deleting a whole tree.
This behavior was found in arch linux with broot version 1.19.0-1
You don't have to close this, even if I don't answer. I don't think the answer is in changing the command itself but I prefer the issue to stay visible so that people give their opinion. Maybe the solution would be in some kind of warning dialog on first execution, I don't know.
Related: there's now a :trash internal, which may be used like this:
{
invocation: "rm"
internal: "trash"
leave_broot: false
}