Comments on: Making deleted files go to the trash can

By: mickey

mickey — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:08:12 +0000

Indeed. The problem with the feature is the same one afflicting flymake. Because flymake, et al. use the same API they end up sending files to trash. I think developers could get away with let-binding the variable when they do their deleting to avoid the problem.

By: M. Grégoire

M. Grégoire — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:15:32 +0000

I use Gnus to read my e-mail. When I had this feature turned on, all my expired (i.e., deleted) messages ended up in the Trash on my server. Eventually I realised that the /home partition was filling up, and that the problem was 130000 files in the Trash.

I strongly recommend that all people installing this feature check their Trash cans to be sure they’re not accidentally holding on to files that ought to disappear.

By: semente

semente — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:55:09 +0000

It breaks my Emacs daemon… if someone know how fix it let me know!

By: MyFreeWeb

MyFreeWeb — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:46:28 +0000

Try Aquamacs nightly builds based on 24. They’re so fast

By: mickey

mickey — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:20:58 +0000

Why not give a vanilla macosx build a shot? I’m not sure what CarbonEmacs adds that makes it worthwhile (not a mac user as you can tell..) but Emacs 23 adds a lot of useful goodies, so it’d probably be worthwhile.

By: Ruben Berenguel

Ruben Berenguel — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:45:54 +0000

Interesting! This is something I wondered about dired & deleting. The time to update my emacs in my Mac is coming, I use Carbon Emacs and it is just version 22.3.1... And no update available... Cheers, Ruben Latest in my blog: Emacs 30 Day Challenge: Get the latest version of gnus to improve speed