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


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32?
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:14:42 +0900

René Kyllingstad writes:
 > * Gilaras Drakeson:
 > >     Lennart Borgman writes:
 > >  
 > > > I just deleted a file because I misunderstood dired. I needed that file
 > > > (of course).
 > > >
 > > > And then I found that dired did not make any backup and did not use
 > > > windows Recycle bin.
 > >  
 > >  Can we have another dired keybinding for move-file-to-trash? 
 > >  (e.g., `b', with companion `% b'. This can be called dired-do-bury).
 > 
 > And while we're requesting features, what about browse-trash and
 > empty-trash?

How about an artificial Dired file "Trash" which refers to the Trash
if non-empty?  Then deleting it empties the trash with confirmation,
and `find'ing it opens a Dired browser on it.





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