GNU bug report logs - #28792
26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 28519, 28828

Found in versions 26.0.50, 26.0.60, 27.0.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 28792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: self <at> gkayaalp.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 28792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28792: 26.0.60;
 Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:16:22 +0300

> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:58:57 +0000
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 28792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> That is still a bug in Emacs, at least because the error message is not helpful. It is also in a non-standard
> format with incorrect capitalizations in-between and doesn't even generate a backtrace by default.

FWIW, I see no problem with the error message, we produce such error
messages in quite a few other places in fileio.c.  The capitalization
seems okay, too.

As for lack of backtrace, that's because the error comes from a C
primitive.
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