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How do you disable the CTRL+T ‘move to trash’ shortcut in GNOME/Nautilus?

10 July 2007, Answered! Thanks to und0 for explaining in the comments. See below…

I just discovered an inconvenient default behavior of the Nautilus file browser. (At least, it appears to be a default in Ubuntu 7.04/Feisty Fawn.) I thought I was in my Firefox window and pressed <CTRL> T to open a new tab, but the focus was in Nautilus and I deleted a file instead. I wasn’t quite sure what I did at first since my attention was on the Firefox window. I immediately checked for an “undo” command in the edit menu, but there doesn’t seem to be one for Nautilus. (Also quite unfortunate.)

Still not sure what had happened, and like a dummy, I pressed CTRL+T again and this time could clearly see a file …