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24.5; trash-directory uses FreeDesktop location on OSX

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, Harvey Chapman <hchapman <at> 3gfp.com>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 21340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21340: 24.5; trash-directory uses FreeDesktop location on OSX
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 21:58:35 +0000

On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 10:31:27AM +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > Or to define a system-move-file-to-trash, which defers to the
> > (presumably existing) system function that does that for us.
> 
> Alan, do you know whether this would make sense on Macos?
> 
> If not, then I think Glenn's suggestion here makes sense, i.e., add:
> 
> (if (eq system-type 'darwin) "~/.Trash/")

It looks like there's a method available to trash items on macOS 10.8
and above, so I suppose that's the logical thing to use.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsfilemanager/1414306-trashitematurl?language=objc

macOS < 10.8 uses some Carbon API, which I'd rather not bother with,
and GNUstep doesn't support it at all, so I imagine it's as well using
the XDG location or whatever the default is.
-- 
Alan Third

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