From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32? Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:58:08 +0200 Message-ID: <48B7AC10.6090800@gmail.com> References: <48B7288E.3040503@gmail.com> <48B73AA9.5090900@gnu.org> <48B73D8F.90501@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219996748 30942 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2008 07:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 09:59:57 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 1KYytR-0006HC-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:59:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58180 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYysT-00015e-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYysI-0000wu-SO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:58:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYysH-0000tw-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:58:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51423 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYysG-0000tV-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:62342) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYys3-0004vk-9e; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYys2-00012I-FG; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:60761 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KYys1-00062p-7u; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:58:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080828-0, 2008-08-28), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KYys1-00062p-7u. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KYys1-00062p-7u b380ca5ea6b612e203ea256c02874f5d X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:103142 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:06:39 +0200 >> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" >> Cc: Emacs Devel >> >>> However, someone submitted a patch some time ago to move files to the >>> desktop's trash which works on Windows and with the common convention >>> used by Gnome, KDE and Mac OSX. To use it you need to set >>> `delete-by-moving-to-trash'. >> Thanks. Wouldn't it be good to have this as a default. > > No, please don't! Only Windows Explorer moves files to the Recycle > Bin by default, all the other programs I use, including the shell, do > not. I don't want to relearn my habits just because Lennart doesn't > want to customize his .emacs. Who said I do not want to customize my .emacs? A little bit more seriously, what is your argument? What harm does it make to turn on this by default? My impression is the opposite, that most well written w32 programs use the Recycle Bin.