Re: A Windows style file deletion system

Re: A Windows style file deletion system

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: "Davin Pearson" <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
   Date: 28 May 2006 02:21:28 -0700

   trashcan--dir
   trashcan--restore
   trashcan--empty

there is an informal convention that two hyphens are for a package's
"internals".  if these commands and variables are for the user to invoke
and customize, respectively, you probably should use one hyphen for them.

btw, you omitted "windows" from the title, but left it scattered through
the summary.  a better -- more direct, less reliant on preconceptions --
approach might be to call the whole concept something like "two-stage
delete" or "recoverable delete" or "deliberate misplacement" or "RIHFN
(rot in hell for now -- maybe i'll change my mind later)" or...

the last suggestion is only somewhat facetious; emacs namespace being as
crowded as it is, it's nice to find a unique prefix that is unlikely to
clash w/ other packages in the future.  why not rihfn-FOO?

IMHO, recycle bin is not really a pleasant analogy, anyway.  where i
live there are multiple bins (plastic, paper, etc) and the stuff
accumulating there tends to become smelly and deformed, causing the
desire for retraction to go from small to zero to negative, in very
short time.

[cc updated.]

thi