[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16116: Hide 'Move to Trash' for auto drafts

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#16116: Hide 'Move to Trash' for auto drafts
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 Reporter:  nacin                              |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)                       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                             |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  Editor                             |  Release
 Severity:  normal                             |     Version:  3.0
 Keywords:  needs-patch dev-feedback ui-focus  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by jdgrimes):

 Replying to [comment:3 nacin]:
 > This patch is lame. Ideally what should happen is that the trash link
 should show after an autosave, as at that point it is no longer an auto-
 draft and can be deleted.
 >
 > If anything, the issue right now is that if you trash an auto-draft with
 no data attached to it, you get an "Undo" link which untrashes it, but it
 just becomes an auto-draft again.
 >
 > Perhaps trashing an auto-draft results in a force-delete instead, and
 ?deleted=1 on edit.php. That makes more sense.

 I agree, especially with that last part. I was expecting that trashing an
 auto-draft would be like canceling post creation (so post is deleted), but
 that isn't what happens. In fact, if you move an auto-draft to the trash,
 you are not only shown the undo link, but the auto-draft appears in the
 list of trashed posts.

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