all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 33336@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33336: 26; Document how to restore trashed files
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 19:22:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftw7a5ra.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e072f6ce-93b0-4c13-86f0-29370e3c4458@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 11 Nov 2018 08:52:51 -0800 (PST))

> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 08:52:51 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 33336@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > Where trash is just another directory, you are right.  But that's
> > > just one variety.
> > 
> > Actually, I take that back: even if trash is a directory that uses the
> > freedesktop trash spec, undeleting a file via Dired is not entirely
> > straightforward, for at least two reasons:
> > 
> >   . Dired is based on parsing the output of 'ls', and AFAIK GNU 'ls'
> >     isn't yet capable of displaying trash directories in useful,
> >     human-readable ways (we'd probably need to reuse/reinvent portions
> >     of ls-lisp?)
> >   . Trash directories routinely have several versions of the same
> >     file, and AFAIK Dired doesn't have capabilities for presenting
> >     several versions of the same file in a way that would facilitate
> >     the decision whether and which version to restore
> 
> But "just another directory" is more general than "directory
> that uses the freedesktop trash spec".  At least if it is
> an ordinary ("just another") directory, and not a directory
> that uses the freedesktop trash spec, can't we help users
> wrt restoring files parked there?

I don't know.  I have no idea who would use that option.  I presume
the vast majority leave the default nil setting of trash-directory
intact, and get the freedesktop style trash (and the Recycle Bin on
Windows).  I see no reason to have a feature that is useful for a tiny
minority of users, while the bulk of them need to use system tools
instead.  Besides, if trash-directory is a simple directory, do we
really need to tell users how to move files out of there?

Sorry, makes no sense to me.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-11 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-10 19:31 bug#33336: 26; Document how to restore trashed files Drew Adams
2018-11-10 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-10 21:26   ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-11  3:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-11 15:28       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <<83o9avab16.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-11-11 16:52         ` Drew Adams
2018-11-11 17:22           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]   ` <<pzr2fs39qo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]     ` <<83pnvc9thl.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-11-11 16:47       ` Drew Adams
2018-11-11 17:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-12 21:26   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=83ftw7a5ra.fsf@gnu.org \
    --to=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=33336@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=drew.adams@oracle.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.