files, or on the marked files if any; but it does not operate on the
current file as a last resort.
- If you kill the line for a file that is a directory, the directory's
-contents are also deleted from the buffer. Typing @kbd{C-u k} on the
-header line for a subdirectory is another way to delete a subdirectory
-from the Dired buffer.
+ If you use @kbd{k} with a numeric prefix argument to kill the line
+for a file that is a directory, which you have inserted in the Dired
+buffer as a subdirectory, then this deletes that subdirectory from the
+buffer as well. Typing @kbd{C-u k} on the header line for a subdirectory
+is another way to delete a subdirectory from the Dired buffer.
The @kbd{g} command brings back any individual lines that you have
killed in this way, but not subdirectories---you must use @kbd{i} to