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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 23:54:38 +0200
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Drew Adams wrote:
>> Didn't you say that you were using different systems? ;-)
> 
> Sorry, I have no idea what you mean.

My bad.

>> And since `dired-internal-do-deletions' just says "Delete ..." I think
>> it can be hard ...
> 
> I don't know whether any doc or prompts would need to be modified. I doubt it
> (except for some doc describing `delete-by-moving-to-trash'). It is not 
> uncommon
> on Windows to have prompts refer to "delete" and "deletion" even though the
> actual behavior is to send a file to the Recycle Bin.


I meant the confirmation prompt. I think it could be something like

  Delete this file permanently? (yes or no)
  Move this file to system trash can? (yes or not)





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