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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>,
	"Kaushal Modi" <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>,
	"Paul Eggert" <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 07:43:52 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16dd5f8f-30db-4f31-bdbd-acd79f9f3777@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-8bFNZXvcKckXqAXro--PGsSUp8jVDYONMQJMtf+M4eQw@mail.gmail.com>

What Noam said.

I think the problem with the error message is not that
it was composed from multiple pieces.  It is that after
those pieces have been joined the result is not a
normal message.

In particular, there should be some punctuation or other
separation between the piece that says that the thing is
not a regular file ("Non-regular file" or whatever) and
the piece that says what is not regular about it ("Is a
directory" or whatever).

This message is not normal (it is confusing):

 (file-error Non-regular file Is a directory /the/file/)

This message is better (though not ideal):

 file-error: Non-regular file: Is a directory, /the/file/





  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-12 14:43 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
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 [this message]
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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