From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>
Cc: 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 13:02:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY2WvWc2FEhTi_=ST6SdbjSxoZ1UCgKZ6gQCWggoiYfdKg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831sm8mskc.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:58 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> This use case raises an interesting question: what should be the
> behavior of delete-by-moving-to-trash when the Trash directory already
> includes a directory by the same name as the non-directory file being
> deleted? Are files in the Trash directory generally unimportant
> enough to disregard these situations, or does this use case run afoul
> of the ability to restore the trashed files later?
>
The fact that the user deleted the files means that the files were not
important. If the user deleted them by mistake, then the trash serves as a
last-resort to restore the files from. Trash is not a "backup".. so unlike
the Emacs backup, there shouldn't be a need to store multiple revisions of
trash.
IMO, if a file or a directory exists by the same name in trash, the
move-file-to-trash should just overwrite that.. if a foo file already
exists and a foo/ dir is being trashed, then just delete the old trashed
foo file and replace with the newly trashed foo/ dir.
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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 [this message]
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
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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