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Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32?


From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32?
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:22:01 +0200
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Jason Rumney wrote:
> Basically Lennart is blaming his tools and misrepresenting the situation
> to cover his foolish mistake. 'D' in dired does delete the marked files
> as expected, not the file under the cursor as he claimed, and what's
> more it prompts you with a list of the files to be deleted and requires
> you to type Y-E-S <RET> before deleting anything.

Yeah, shoot the messenger! Who want to be disturbed in his dreams.

I told the cost of a user interface that is unexpected and I went to
some length explaining that.

You seem to have thrown that explanation in Emacs big Recycle Bin of
refuted ideas. I am glad it can't be deleted directly in free software
development ;-)

I am sure there is substans in what I wrote about.

I do not want any immediate reaction of course. It is food for thought.
Normally I do not write these essays. Part of the reason is simply that
I have found that communication often fails here when it comes to this
kind of issues. Now I was frustrated and did not care about that.
However I could have written nearly the same thing (minus the
frustration of course) at another occasion if I had time and could find
energy for it.




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