From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32? Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:40:03 +0000 Message-ID: <20080830094003.GA2698@muc.de> References: <48B7288E.3040503@gmail.com> <87wshzpszz.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <48B87A2D.3050406@emf.net> <8763pjqjrt.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220089556 11657 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2008 09:45:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:45:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Emacs Devel To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 30 11:46:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZN2e-0008Hj-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:46:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZN1f-0001Ot-Hd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZMsV-00017b-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZMsQ-000139-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58805 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZMsQ-00012s-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:3100 helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZMsQ-0006Pb-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 54037 invoked by uid 3782); 30 Aug 2008 09:36:11 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E23B3B.dip.t-dialin.net [217.226.59.59]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:36:09 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 2856 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Aug 2008 09:40:04 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8763pjqjrt.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103253 Archived-At: Hi, Stephen! On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:11:34PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > God, you're smart, Tom. At least in the "finding the head of the nail > so you can whack it with a hammer" sense. ;-) Dangerous - aiming for (car nail), you might cdr it, and at the next swipe hit toe nail instead of tail nail, carnage indeed. > I conclude that this thread is a waste of time .... At least, it has become so. > Lennart should go customize his .emacs .... Not meaning to be unkind to Lennart, but we've ALL lost critical files by doing stupid things. At least I have, and it cost me several days of hard (but interesting) grind to recover the bulk of that file. Aren't there effective file undelete programs for MS-Windows? There certainly were for MS-DOS's FAT file system. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany)