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

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> 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.
>   

Of course not. The Recycle Bin is part of the Explorer shell, not a 
fundamental part of deleting files on the OS. If you go to a command 
prompt and type "del filename.txt" it will not use the Recycle Bin 
either, and nor will most other programs that delete files from outside 
of the Explorer shell.

However, someone submitted a patch some time ago to move files to the 
desktop's trash which works on Windows and with the common convention 
used by Gnome, KDE and Mac OSX. To use it you need to set 
`delete-by-moving-to-trash'.


> This behaviour does not make me trust for example GNU/Linux.

That is a strange statement, since you are not even using GNU/Linux.