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26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error

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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: self <at> gkayaalp.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 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 14:06:26 +0000

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:02 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> 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

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