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


From: tomas
Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32?
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:53:08 +0200
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:26:37PM +0100, David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 03:16:14AM +0100, David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> > 
> >> IMO the optional-per-volume-trash-dir aspects are particularly iffy,
> > 
> > Sure. The Windows method of dealing with network-hosted files is so
> > superior [...]

> Huh? While that is awfully stupid of windows (quelle surprise), it's
> quite obviously usually possible to just backup the files trashed from
> netmounted volumes [...]

Sorry. It was meant as a sarcastic remark (and as such rather
inconstructive, I apologize) towards those who want to impose whatever
inconsistent idea Windows has come up upon the rest of us.

"Move-when-in-same file system, copy-when-across filesystems for drag
and drop" is just another such case, which might be marginally defended
on Windows (they have drive letters, after all) and becomes outright
dangerous on Unixen.

As a personal note, I am very happy without any trashcan. On the
contrary: I dropped Gnome because it was accreting far too many gimmicks
of this kind.

Regards
- -- tomás
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