How to delete non-empty directories in netrw (Vim 8 or Neovim)?

Question

I try to delete some non-empty folder in netrw by pressing Shift d and, after press y, I got this error:

(netrw) unable to delete directory {path}

I already put this variable in my .config/nvim/init.vim file and doesn't works: let g:netrw_localrmdir='rm -r'

As I read, this variable only works with vim 7.4 and earlier.

Is there a way to delete non-empty directories with netrw in Vim 8+ or Neovim?

My setup:

OS: MacOs Catalina
NVIM v0.4.3

EDIT

My intention is to use as few plugins as possible, but, netrw has some other bugs, so U gave up using netrw and installed NERDTree again.

Answer 1

There's a way to delete non-empty directories with netrw in vim 8+ or nvim?

You could do :!rm -rf directory

That warning means, you have files still in that directory. So if a file in that directory you want to delete is on the current buffer, you could do this.

:!rm -rf %:h

Which deletes the directory of the current file. %:h expands to the directory of the current file, and you can even press <tab> to have it expand and you can modify the path if you wanted.

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Another alternative would be, use R and just move it to /tmp or something which gets deleted automatically by the system, in my case linux.

Answer 2

mf to mark the directory

mx to apply shell command to marked files

rm -rf <enter>