From: Ruijie Yu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: 60460@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60460: 30.0.50; [FR] avoid putting remote files to local trash
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:34:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sdv4jtb8rcn.fsf@fw.net.yu> (raw)
Hello,
I have been organizing my files lately over multiple devices using
tramp. One issue I find with my current setup is that since I set
`delete-by-moving-to-trash' to t, all files, even the remote ones, are
moved to my trash directory.
This, unfortunately, harms my workflow because the files I wanted to
delete include some random multi-gig files, as well as many .git
directories, both of which greatly bottleneck my file-deletion process.
I also don't want to disable trashing globally, because I think putting
local files to trash (which do not introduce a significant delay) is
still a good idea.
In response to this, I want to propose a change to the logic under which
trashing is performed rather than deletion. However, I am not sure
which one of my following two ideas is more appropriate.
1. Allow the user to disable "moving to local trash" only for remote
files. I imagine this would entail allowing the user to set
`delete-by-moving-to-trash' to 'local, and modifying `delete-file',
`delete-directory', `dired-internal-do-deletions' among other functions
accordingly. Alternatively we can have a dedicated variable for this
purpose.
In this case, if `delete-by-moving-to-trash' is set to 'local, whenever
a user deletes a remote file such as "/sudo::/etc/os-release", it is
simply deleted as if via "/sudo:://bin/rm", whereas when the user
deletes a local file ".bashrc", it is moved to trash as normal.
2. Use a dedicated local trash directory for each remote, optionally
behind a toggle. E.g. for files under "/sudo::" remote, we might have
the trash directory as "/sudo::.local/share/Trash". I am not sure how
this would interact with `trash-directory', as I have this as nil and
simply let Emacs use the XDG path for trash.
This might additionally pose some challanges when multiple remotes are
aliases to each other, for example, "/sshx:user@localhost:.bashrc" and
"/sshx:user@127.0.0.1:.bashrc" logically are the same file, but it might
be hard to programmatically check that two hosts are equivalent.
Best,
RY
next reply other threads:[~2022-12-31 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-31 16:34 Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-01-01 16:41 ` bug#60460: 30.0.50; [FR] avoid putting remote files to local trash Drew Adams
2023-01-01 16:47 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-01 18:20 ` Drew Adams
2023-01-02 3:40 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-02 9:09 ` Michael Albinus
2023-01-02 10:35 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-02 10:47 ` Michael Albinus
2023-01-02 16:28 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-02 18:30 ` Michael Albinus
2023-01-02 20:37 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-03 8:47 ` Michael Albinus
2023-01-03 13:53 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-07 3:53 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-07 12:48 ` Michael Albinus
2023-01-08 0:37 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-08 9:20 ` Michael Albinus
2023-01-08 18:29 ` Michael Albinus
2023-02-02 8:56 ` Michael Albinus
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2023-01-01 14:20 bug#60462: " Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-31 21:46 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-01-02 9:16 ` bug#60460: " Michael Albinus
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