Re: your vc-dir-mode-map change

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Sam Steingold <sds@podval.org> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > |
  > | Can you please undo your vc-dir-mode-map change?
  > |
  > | "d" would be more useful if it followed what PCL-CVS does, provide
  > | better diff functionality.
  > 
  > would "r" be OK with you?

I'd rather keep that one for "rename".

  > | Deletion is not a very frequent action, so it does not seem like a good
  > | idea to waste an easily accessible key for it.  Also it's better to make
  > | it harder to delete files, so that users don't do it accidentally.
  > | It doesn't seem such a big imposition to force the use of a menu or
  > | M-x vc-delete-file when trying to remove files.
  > 
  > There is no menu item.

It should be there first.

  > I find file deletion to be a fairly common operation.

That is not the same thing as deleting files from the VC system, which
is not that common.

  > | More, vc-delete-file does not have any key binding by default, and we
  > | haven't gotten any complaints about this...
  > 
  > consider my patch to be such a complaint :-)

Well, VC has been around for many years, so this does not count much.
We can reconsider this when there's a key binding in the C-x v keymap.