From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32? Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:12:33 -0700 Message-ID: <000601c90a13$9337e4e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <48B7288E.3040503@gmail.com><48B73AA9.5090900@gnu.org><48B73D8F.90501@gmail.com><48B7AC10.6090800@gmail.com><48B7B08B.6050103@gmail.com><48B7F905.7060605@gmail.com><001301c909e8$d63092e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <20080829155801.05fabc31.taylor@metasyntax.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220040884 22016 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2008 20:14:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:14:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'David House' , 'Eli Zaretskii' , jasonr@gnu.org, "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Taylor Venable'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 22:15:38 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 1KZANc-000895-Vg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:15:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46557 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZAMe-0007XT-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:14:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZAL7-00078H-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZAL5-00077a-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36610 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZAL4-00077U-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:29017) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZAKs-0004m4-4X; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m7TKCcnf030566; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:12:38 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt700.oracle.com (acsmt700.oracle.com [141.146.40.70]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m7TKCaMa007986; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:12:36 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/69.181.100.12) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:12:36 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: <20080829155801.05fabc31.taylor@metasyntax.net> Thread-Index: AckKEbVYAbVwmyIqQ26Uz3pUZcKgygAAZ51A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:103203 Archived-At: > > I agree that it should be mentioned prominently. > > > > IIUC, `delete-by-moving-to-trash' works similarly on all platforms > > that have some sort of trash can (recycle bin) - is that correct? > > It's important that something like this be similar for all > > platforms. > > Maybe, assuming you have a Trash. Yes, I meant on all platforms that have such a can/bin feature. > > My preference is that this not be turned on by default - that is, > > keep the traditional Emacs behavior. But I recognize the counter > > arguments. The traditional behavior here is better for overall Emacs > > use, IMO, but I won't argue about it. > > I agree that any feature like this should be disabled by default. At > least on Linux platforms, it would have to make some assumptions about > the operating environment, or jump through some hoops to try to > determine that environment precisely.