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Subject: Re: [9fans] mouse dragging
From: YAMANASHI Takeshi <uncover@beat.cc.titech.ac.jp>
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Date: Wed,  8 Oct 2003 12:12:35 +0900
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On Wed Oct  8 11:25:35 JST 2003, okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:
> I was asked by a very newbie where is "trash can".
> Well, we haven't one.   I tried to tell her why we don't need it.
> However, in my deep mind, I doubted it to myself.
> I really don't need it?

if you are discussing about the safety net property of trash-can,
i should say you don't need it as long as you are backed up by
either worm file system or venti/fossil.  you can retrieve it from
/n/dump whenever you want it with specific date.

or if the user interface is in question, you might need the trash-can
for a certain kind of user.

but you can easily achieve some form of the interface in acme(1).
just type `rm' in tag line, select the file name to delete, execute
the `rm' on the tag line with middle-left mouse chording.

furthermore, you can copy rm(1) to whatever you like and use it instead.
eg.  `Gomibako' or `trash'.  even Japanese Kanji command name is fine
in Plan 9. :)
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