From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rgm@gnu.org
Cc: 33336@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33336: 26; Document how to restore trashed files
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:28:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9avab16.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pnvc9thl.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 11 Nov 2018 05:35:18 +0200)
> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 05:35:18 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 33336@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> > Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 33336@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 16:26:07 -0500
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > This is a system facility, Emacs just uses it. Restoring files from
> > > there is something specific to each system, and is not for Emacs to
> > > provide or document.
> >
> > I don't see how moving something out of trash is different to moving it
> > in this regard.
>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-11 15:28 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 [this message]
[not found] ` <<83o9avab16.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-11-11 16:52 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-11 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
[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
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