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

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Message #50 received at 28792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>, Eli Zaretskii
 <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Göktuğ Kayaalp <self <at> gkayaalp.com>,
 28792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
 Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Subject: RE: bug#28792: 26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired
 gives error
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 07:43:52 -0700 (PDT)

What Noam said.

I think the problem with the error message is not that
it was composed from multiple pieces.  It is that after
those pieces have been joined the result is not a
normal message.

In particular, there should be some punctuation or other
separation between the piece that says that the thing is
not a regular file ("Non-regular file" or whatever) and
the piece that says what is not regular about it ("Is a
directory" or whatever).

This message is not normal (it is confusing):

 (file-error Non-regular file Is a directory /the/file/)

This message is better (though not ideal):

 file-error: Non-regular file: Is a directory, /the/file/

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