From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32? Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:01:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20080829.120151.161624313.wl@gnu.org> References: <48B7288E.3040503@gmail.com> 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 1220004207 18111 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2008 10:03:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: lennart.borgman@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 12:04:21 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 1KZ0q5-0000kh-Js for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:04:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54544 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZ0p7-0002ei-10 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZ0nt-0001tt-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZ0nr-0001sx-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59182 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZ0nr-0001si-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]:60893) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZ0nq-0008DY-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (e179195032.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.179.195.32]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwtQ-1KZ0nd3cNe-0005Sx; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:01:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <48B7288E.3040503@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2.53 on Emacs 23.0.50.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+8ZsLX8PpB5TC0GhMSBsa83E5wMtUCq54hgeo e3g+fl3L/Ti2nZkfyC14pd5kvFQnnpmO/ciquGbztlU0EvItlF i2Lv7QjPr5l1mS//3Eb/Q== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:103158 > And then I found that dired did not make any backup and did not use > windows Recycle bin. Hmm. > This behaviour does not make me trust for example GNU/Linux. I > would beleive this is a behaviour implemented after how things work > there. Is this correct? Does Emacs behave this way on GNU/Linus > too? I use the `libtrash' library very successfully to prevent accidental data loss (since I mainly work on the console which never uses the trash folder of the GUI). Werner