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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 23:13:11 +0200
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Drew Adams wrote:
>> 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.)
> 
> We're talking about setting a preference, here. This is pretty much a one-time
> operation: You either want `delete' to send to the recycle bin or you want it 
> to
> delete. Whichever you choose, `S-delete' does the other. Nothing complicated
> about this. No one will need to struggle with any logic expressions. ;-)

Didn't you say that you were using different systems? ;-)

And since `dired-internal-do-deletions' just says "Delete ..." I think
it can be hard ...

(Could someone please update that prompt?)




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