On 12/17/22 00:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I don't really mind renaming that function, but the reason I called it
> like I did was that apparently no one needed such a functionality in
> Emacs until now,

I have a bit of a different take. First, there's adequate functionality 
in Emacs now if we don't mind inefficiency, and it's already used; just 
call file-attributes. (Gnus does this, in nnmaildir-unlink at least, and 
I expect there are other uses.) Second, I wouldn't be surprised if other 
uses of file-exists-p have problems similar to the one you found in 
move-file-to-trash. Not that any of us have time to go scout for them 
right now.

It's a minor point. Still, the name file-exists-in-trash-p really needs 
to go somehow as it's not a name that should be user-visible. How about 
the attached patch?