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 23:05:10 +0200 Message-ID: <48B86486.4090605@gmail.com> References: <48B7288E.3040503@gmail.com> <87y72f603p.fsf@comm.utoronto.ca> <001201c90a19$aaf5b7a0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.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 1220043985 31928 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2008 21:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:06:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Gilaras Drakeson' To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 23:07:19 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 1KZBBV-0006RP-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:07:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZBAW-0008KQ-Fz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:06:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZB9m-00084G-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:05:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZB9k-00082j-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46687 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZB9j-00082O-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:54086) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZB9j-0006Bm-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:64345 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KZB9g-0004Xh-7f; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:05:16 +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: <001201c90a19$aaf5b7a0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080829-0, 2008-08-29), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KZB9g-0004Xh-7f. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KZB9g-0004Xh-7f c8fc6fa632226f8752da0318e796234c 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:103211 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > For Emacs, we could do this: By default, `delete' deletes the file and > `S-delete' sends it to the Recycle Bin, That would be good. > but with non-nil > `delete-by-moving-to-trash' these would be reversed: `delete' would send to the > Recycle Bin and `S-delete' would delete the file (a la Windows). I wonder if reversing like that is a good idea. Negation is sometimes a very confusing operation for our brains. If you have seen people struggling with logic expressions which they try to match what they want you have probably seen how confused they can be. (And I believe negation is even more confusing when we are stressed.)