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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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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