On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:59:15AM +0200, Sjors Gielen wrote: > May I ask why this is seen as a poor design decision? (Assuming that zsh > only asks this if the shell is interactive) Because it gives a false sense of security, trains people to be less careful, and doesn't handle all similar use cases. There are periodic requests to extend this feature to cover other cases of potential data loss, and they are always rejected.