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

[Jason Rumney]

David House wrote:
> So far, the only valid argument I've heard in favour of bypassing the
> Recycle Bin is to conserve disk space.

Read my earlier mail on the subject. The Recycle Bin can be a security 
hole when users expect files to be deleted immediately, and when not 
using the Explorer (or standard File Dialog which is based on, and looks 
like Explorer) it is quite reasonable to expect Explorer's recycle bin 
to not be involved.

Talking of "bypassing the Recycle Bin" makes it sound like we have to do 
extra work to do not use the recycle bin. In fact the opposite is true, 
and I'm not aware of ANY non-system program other than Emacs that takes 
the trouble to use the Recycle Bin on Windows.

Basically Lennart is blaming his tools and misrepresenting the situation 
to cover his foolish mistake. 'D' in dired does delete the marked files 
as expected, not the file under the cursor as he claimed, and what's 
more it prompts you with a list of the files to be deleted and requires 
you to type Y-E-S <RET> before deleting anything.