From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] mouse dragging From: okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp In-Reply-To: <832a6c57bb30de122edf49083616c7c4@orthanc.cc.titech.ac.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:31:52 +0900 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 68bdf334-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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. You got a point. No, we don't need such thing. > 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. No, it's not easy to let the today's students who are too much adapted to windows etc. I experienced it, I'm still trying though. I got a conviction that we can implement mouse left+middle chode to delete or copy a file object in a directory window. I at first worried about it's too easy action to delete it in mistake, that is we have to prepare some safety net for it. This is the reason why I considered trash can. Kenji