Suggested dired modification : add a flag to use DELETE instead of RM

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From: David Honig
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 18:17

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(apologies for sending this to the bug list)

It would be nice if users could, in their .emacs file, specify that
the (unix-public-utility) DELETE  instead of  RM be used during file 
deletion.  Perhaps dired could avoid showing the resulting .# files 
if this is enabled.

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