GNU bug report logs - #21340
24.5; trash-directory uses FreeDesktop location on OSX

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Harvey Chapman <hchapman <at> 3gfp.com>

Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:22:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.5

Done: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 21340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Harvey Chapman <hchapman <at> 3gfp.com>,
 21340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21340: 24.5; trash-directory uses FreeDesktop location on OSX
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:18:40 -0400

> I don't use OS X, but it sounds to like it would be better to change the
> default value of trash-directory to
> (if (eq system-type 'darwin) "~/.Trash/")

Or to define a system-move-file-to-trash, which defers to the
(presumably existing) system function that does that for us.


        Stefan
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