Re: patch about moving file (or directory) to the Recycle Bin on Windows NT series

[Jason Rumney]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > (defvar trash-directory "~/.trash"
> >     

Is this deliberate, to not interfere with the standard "~/.Trash" directory?

> >   (cond
> >    ((eq system-type 'windows-nt)
> >     (w32-move-file-to-trash filename))
> >     

This might be better as
  ((fboundp 'system-move-file-to-trash)
    (system-move-file-to-trash filename))

Then adding a proper implementation for the freedesktop.org standard 
will be as simple as defining such a function in the GTK (for example) 
code. Likewise for Mac OSX.