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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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: self <at> gkayaalp.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 28792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28792: 26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:27:05 +0200

On Okt 12 2017, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> 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..

That depend on whether the trash is on the same file system as the
directory to trash.  rename-file now refuses to copy directory across
file systems unless the target name ends in a slash.

Andreas.

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