It's interesting that you bring that up.. because I've always though
of "remove" or "rm" as being very permanent.. a command to be careful
with.  I'm sure a lot of fellow linux users feel the same way.

Whereas "delete" in a GUI OS just moves things to the trash, which can
be undone.

But this all falls apart in the examples many of you have stated...
especially in apps that have sub-lists that act independently from the
main list (library) ...

It looks like this is an area that could use some work and
consistency.  Realistically, all my linux biases aside, "remove" does
sound less drastic than "delete" ...

My favourite linux/unix command has always been "kill" .. so I'm not
one to talk about drastic sounding commands.


On 10/17/07, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> rm on a unix/linux file system does a very specific thing. Users of those
> OSes know what to expect. People not familiar with rm wouldn't have learned
> it and probably aren't to be bothered learning x-nix systems.

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