I don't do that very often; that's why I never bothered about automating this. Basically, I would turn off the read-only mode, copy the names of the branches, paste in a scratch buffer, join the lines, then go back to Magit buffer and press ! ! then run git -D branch-1 branch-2 ... branch-n

Is this similar to what you want? https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/19013

@UJRDALZA5 yup, that would solve my problem! Though I'm using Ivy, and would prefer not dragging in Helm for a Magit mode.

I just tried it. Works without Helm. Not sure why Helm is mentioned. For me, the delete key was x and not k as mentioned.

Huh, interesting. Thanks for investigating!

There's also https://emacsredux.com/blog/2021/03/23/deleting-git-branches-with-magit/

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Great timing, @U051BLM8F! 😄

The DOOM Emacs configuration for Magit seems to be using y for yanking stuff, not opening a branch list.

The branch "dispatch ground" doesn't seem to list a way for me to do this either. Guess I should learn how to open packages with unconfigured key bindings.

For DOOM users:

M-x magit-dispatch y C-v jjj x

This is what is suggested in the StackExchange thread also. The answer is by none other than https://github.com/tarsius. You are right about y being bound to yank. But I can just type ? in the Magit buffer which is bound to magit-dispatch (in Doom).

> But I can just type `?` in the Magit buffer which is bound to `magit-dispatch` (in Doom) Ah, thanks. I thought that was the "help menu", I wasn't aware that the key bindings were different from the key bindings in M-x magit-status. Learn something new every day!