[oneeyedpigeon]

I take your point. I can't be certain why, because it's been so long since I used Windows, but I never found this to be a problem in practice — maybe I was just lucky. I guess you could make the same argument about cut in any context, except:

a) you could argue that cutting text isn't as destructive as deleting a file, although they could be one and the same if you happen to have an entire file's text selected

b) mechanisms for undo'ing text operations tend to be more sophisticated than undo'ing filesystem operations; I might argue that's a separate problem to be resolved

I'd be perfectly happy if this were an option, buried in some obscure preference panel somewhere, labelled "yes, I really want to shoot myself in the foot" but, as it stands, I don't even get that.

[spideymans]

>I can't be certain why, because it's been so long since I used Windows, but I never found this to be a problem in practice

I would have said the same thing. But then again, I'm sure there's been times where files have gone "missing" on my computer. Did I misplace them? Accidentally deleted them? Accidentally cut-and-paste? Who knows.

>I'd be perfectly happy if this were an option, buried in some obscure preference panel somewhere, labelled "yes, I really want to shoot myself in the foot" but, as it stands, I don't even get that.

Yeah, no argument from me there. I'd appreciate an option buried in the OS X CLI at a bare minimum.