Subject: Re: bug#28792: 26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error

From: Kaushal Modi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:06:26 +0000

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:02 AM Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> wrote:

> No, it contains 4 elements:
>
> - the error symbol (file-error)
> - a descriptive string ("Non-regular file")
> - the system error as a string ("Is a directory")
> - the offending object ("/home/kmodi/.emacs.d/foo")
>

Thanks.

> > Also, the error is not-informative.. the user is trying to trash foo/ and
> > knows that foo/ is a directory.. so how would
>
> copy-file does not support copying non-regular files.
>

But it seems to work in some cases i.e. trashing a dir works*. See my
recipe in my earlier message in this debbugs thread[1]. Somehow this error
has a correlation with relative locations of the user-set trash dir and
to-be-deleted dir..

[1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28792#11
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Kaushal Modi