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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
Cc: 58721@debbugs.gnu.org, gusbrs.2016@gmail.com
Subject: bug#58721: 28.2; dired with delete-by-moving-to-trash can't trash directory twice
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 19:56:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eduqh8l8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11379.1667061172@alto> (message from Mike Kupfer on Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:32:52 -0700)

> From: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
> cc: 58721@debbugs.gnu.org, gusbrs.2016@gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 09:32:52 -0700
> 
> So... (rename-file "a" "/tmp/newa" t) gives the original error.
> 
> (rename-file "a" "/tmp/newa/" t) gives us /tmp/newa/a/b.
> 
> What we want is /tmp/newa/b.
> 
> I can think of 2 ways forward.  One is to add an optional argument to
> rename-file to get the desired behavior, like the copy-contents argument
> to copy-directory.
> 
> The other is for move-file-to-trash to call rename-file on the top-level
> contents of the directory that is being trashed ("a/b" in my simple test
> case), rather than on the directory itself.
> 
> I think the first approach is preferable, in that it parallels the
> definition of copy-directory.  But either should work.

Yet another possibility is to refrain from calling rename-file when
the moved file is a directory, and instead to do what rename-file
does, with a twist, "by hand".  That is what I actually prefer, as
nothing is really wrong with rename-file.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-29 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-22 18:23 bug#58721: 28.2; dired with delete-by-moving-to-trash can't trash directory twice Gustavo Barros
2022-10-27 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-27 17:07   ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-27 17:22     ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-27 17:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-27 17:51       ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-27 18:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-27 18:41           ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-27 19:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-27 19:13               ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-27 22:01               ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-28  7:46                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-28 10:43                   ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-28 11:44                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-28 12:35                       ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-28 15:26                         ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-28 16:06                           ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-28 19:07                             ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-29  5:25                       ` Mike Kupfer
2022-10-29 10:35                         ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-29 15:24                         ` Mike Kupfer
2022-10-29 15:48                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-29 16:32                             ` Mike Kupfer
2022-10-29 16:56                               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-30  0:09                                 ` Mike Kupfer
2022-10-30  6:41                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-30 17:40                                     ` Mike Kupfer
2022-10-30 18:02                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-30 18:18                                         ` Mike Kupfer
2022-10-30 19:51                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-30 22:20                                             ` Mike Kupfer
2022-10-30 23:10                                               ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-31  0:01                                                 ` Mike Kupfer
2022-10-31  0:23                                                   ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-31 12:49                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-31 13:16                                                     ` Gustavo Barros
2022-11-21  1:08                                                       ` Mike Kupfer
2022-11-21  1:45                                                         ` Gustavo Barros
2022-11-21  1:52                                                           ` Mike Kupfer
2022-11-24 11:19                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-24 11:28                                                           ` Gustavo Barros
2022-10-27 19:07             ` Gustavo Barros

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