Re: delete-file to trash

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 23/05/10 01:09, Chong Yidong wrote:


> So, it seems better to flip the new FORCE argument to delete-file.  We
> could change it to an argument ALLOW-TRASH, and change the doc of
> delete-by-moving-to-trash to say that it will only take effect on calls
> to `delete-file' that use the ALLOW-TRASH argument.  This is backward
> incompatible but I don't see any better solution.

One oddity is that delete-file is directly usable interactively, I know 
I'm in the habit (though I _don't_ use the trashcan) - flipping the 
sense of the optional arg would effectively mean that it won't use the 
trashcan when called interactively, wouldn't it?  Unless you further 
make it special-case direct interactive use to be an 'allow-trash op of 
course.

Um. You can use M-x move-file-to-trash interactively too I suppose, that 
might be adequate if users can train themselves to do that instead of 
M-x delete-file.