4.2.7 Enabling Your Trash

• delete-by-moving-to-trash

Your value of 'delete-by-moving-to-trash' is currently: nil

By default, Emacs ‘deletion’ commands do not use the ‘Trash’ facility. To use the ‘Trash’ facility (when it is available) for common deletion commands, change the variable delete-by-moving-to-trash to ‘t’. This affects the commands ‘M-x delete-file’ delete-file and ‘M-x delete-directory’ delete-directory (see Directories), as well as the deletion commands in ‘Dired’ (see Dired Deletion).