From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32?
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:37:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wshzpszz.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B7288E.3040503@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:37:02 +0200")
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> I just deleted a file because I misunderstood dired. I needed that file
> (of course).
Do you see the paradoxon?
> And then I found that dired did not make any backup and did not use
> windows Recycle bin.
It's called `delete' not `move to somewhere else'.
> This behaviour does not make me trust for example GNU/Linux.
I don't quite follow.
> 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?
Yes.
Would it be feasible to extend the documentation on this? I suspect
that you don't use dired without ever looking at the documentation at
all, so a note in the docstring (and info file) that explains that
`delete' means `delete' would be enough to prevent this
misunderstanding?
Hannes
diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 834cdeb..8b885fb 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-08-29 Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
+
+ * dired.texi: Add note about the permanent nature of file deletion.
+
2008-08-27 Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
* custom.texi (Directory Variables): Minor fix.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
index 104c59f..9355df0 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
@@ -576,6 +576,10 @@ Like the other commands in this section, this command operates on the
@emph{marked} files, or the next @var{n} files. By contrast, @kbd{x}
(@code{dired-do-flagged-delete}) deletes all @dfn{flagged} files.
+Note that deletion really means deletion here. The files will not be
+moved to a trash directory and no backup will be made. Be sure of
+what you do!
+
@findex dired-do-rename
@kindex R @r{(Dired)}
@cindex renaming files (in Dired)
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 7376b83..e4a27b5 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-08-29 Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
+
+ * dired.el (dired-do-delete): Add note about the permanent nature
+ of file deletion.
+
2008-08-29 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* bindings.el (mode-line-frame-identification): Fix last change.
diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el
index 3102a6d..1d36618 100644
--- a/lisp/dired.el
+++ b/lisp/dired.el
@@ -2538,7 +2538,7 @@ non-empty directories is allowed."
(message "(No deletions requested)")))))
(defun dired-do-delete (&optional arg)
- "Delete all marked (or next ARG) files.
+ "Permanently(!) delete all marked (or next ARG) files.
`dired-recursive-deletes' controls whether deletion of
non-empty directories is allowed."
;; This is more consistent with the file marking feature than
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-29 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-28 22:37 Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32? Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-28 23:41 ` Michael Ekstrand
2008-08-29 0:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-28 23:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-28 23:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-28 23:54 ` Jason Rumney
2008-08-29 0:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 5:39 ` Jason Rumney
2008-08-29 6:51 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-29 7:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-29 8:17 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-29 9:43 ` David House
2008-08-29 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-29 13:26 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-29 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-29 15:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-08-29 16:28 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-29 15:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-29 16:32 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-29 16:43 ` David House
2008-08-29 22:12 ` René Kyllingstad
2008-08-30 0:29 ` David House
2008-08-30 0:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-30 1:58 ` David House
2008-08-31 2:32 ` Sean Sieger
2008-08-31 2:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-31 3:28 ` Sean Sieger
2008-08-29 19:58 ` Taylor Venable
2008-08-29 20:08 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 20:46 ` Taylor Venable
2008-08-29 21:00 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 21:59 ` Phil Jackson
2008-08-29 22:12 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 23:43 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-30 9:49 ` Phil Jackson
2008-08-30 10:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-30 10:43 ` Phil Jackson
2008-08-30 20:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-30 14:03 ` Taylor Venable
2008-08-30 14:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-30 22:32 ` Manoj Srivastava
2008-08-30 22:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-31 3:35 ` Manoj Srivastava
2008-08-31 3:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-30 23:04 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-31 3:37 ` Manoj Srivastava
2008-08-31 6:55 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-31 6:59 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-31 9:31 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-31 13:51 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-31 15:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-31 16:38 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-31 17:43 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-31 20:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-31 10:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-29 20:12 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-29 23:43 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-30 0:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-30 2:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-30 5:10 ` tomas
2008-08-30 21:26 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-31 4:53 ` tomas
2008-08-31 12:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-31 16:51 ` tomas
2008-08-31 20:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-01 4:33 ` tomas
2008-08-29 10:41 ` Jason Rumney
2008-08-29 11:35 ` martin rudalics
2008-08-29 12:16 ` David House
2008-08-29 13:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 13:45 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 14:00 ` Jason Rumney
2008-08-29 16:16 ` Francis Litterio
2008-08-29 9:19 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-29 8:16 ` David House
2008-08-29 8:18 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 8:31 ` David House
2008-08-29 8:39 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 10:01 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-08-29 13:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-30 18:37 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-08-31 12:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-31 19:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-31 21:49 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-08-29 10:57 ` Phil Jackson
2008-08-29 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-29 18:37 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2008-08-29 19:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-30 9:11 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-08-30 12:42 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-30 13:26 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-08-30 13:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-30 15:06 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-08-30 17:23 ` René Kyllingstad
2008-08-30 20:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 22:37 ` Thomas Lord
2008-08-30 3:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-08-30 9:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-30 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-30 15:03 ` Jason Rumney
2008-08-30 20:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-30 9:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-08-31 1:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-31 6:22 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-08-29 20:24 ` Gilaras Drakeson
2008-08-29 20:56 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-29 21:05 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 21:11 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-29 21:13 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 21:20 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-29 21:54 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 22:20 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-29 22:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-29 22:17 ` René Kyllingstad
2008-08-30 3:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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