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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 28792@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28792: 26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:06:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY0=7FEfeCgXUrDhYb6Cuo1+O0f8MF=j6=OAJc6J9ut3sQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmpo9sv4zr.fsf@suse.de>

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:02 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> No, it contains 4 elements:
>
> - the error symbol (file-error)
> - a descriptive string ("Non-regular file")
> - the system error as a string ("Is a directory")
> - the offending object ("/home/kmodi/.emacs.d/foo")
>

Thanks.


> > Also, the error is not-informative.. the user is trying to trash foo/ and
> > knows that foo/ is a directory.. so how would
>
> copy-file does not support copying non-regular files.
>

But it seems to work in some cases i.e. trashing a dir works*. See my
recipe in my earlier message in this debbugs thread[1]. Somehow this error
has a correlation with relative locations of the user-set trash dir and
to-be-deleted dir..

[1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28792#11
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Kaushal Modi

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-12 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-12  3:26 bug#28792: 26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12  3:36 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12  3:51   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 12:50     ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-10-12 12:58       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 13:02         ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 13:37         ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-10-12 12:58       ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 13:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 13:31           ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 13:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 14:02             ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-12 14:06               ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2017-10-12 15:07                 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 15:15                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 15:27                 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-12 15:31                   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 20:25                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-12 21:41                     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-15  7:18                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-15 13:35                         ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-15 13:47                           ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-12 14:24           ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-12 14:43             ` Drew Adams
2017-10-12 15:07               ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-12 15:10                 ` Drew Adams
2017-10-12 13:34 ` Tino Calancha

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