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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, 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 15:31:05 +0000

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:27 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de> wrote:

> 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.
>

That means that as dired-do-delete is a wrapper at some level over
move-file-to-trash, that slash appending should be done in dired somewhere?
-- 

Kaushal Modi

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