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bug#47960: 28.0.50; delete-by-moving-to-trash fails on directories?
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Protesilaos Stavrou |
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bug#47960: 28.0.50; delete-by-moving-to-trash fails on directories? |
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Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:42:00 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On 2021-04-22, 21:11 +0000, Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> wrote:
>>
>> On trunk the (setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t) no longer works in
>> Dired and Eshell when trying to delete a directory.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce with emacs -Q:
>>
>> + Evaluate (setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t).
>> + Use 'C-x C-j' to jump to a dired buffer.
>> + Then type '+' and create a new directory named "test" or whatever.
>> + With point over the newly created directory ,type "D", and confirm.
>>
>> You get an error: "file-error: Renaming: Not a directory [...]"
>>
>> Same if you try to delete the directory with the 'rm -r' command from
>> inside eshell (though 'rmdir' works in this case).
>>
>> For completeness, M-x shell works with either 'rm -r' and 'rmdir'.
>>
>
> Are you sure this bug is not due to something going wrong on your
> machine? I'm unable to reproduce this bug here, both Dired and Eshell
> seem to work as expected.
It could be, though I have only updated Emacs in the last ~10 days.
What seems to be the issue is when a deleted entry of the same name
already exists. I emptied my trash and tried the above recipe: the
problem would not occur. But upon immediate retry the problem appeared,
presumably because "test" already existed in the trash.
> Did you by any chance define a 'system-move-file-to-trash' function?
No
> Does it work when you (setq trash-directory <something>)?
Yes, it does. Both for my original recipe and with the other case I
mentioned above.
I have always set this to nil, which makes it use the trash of
freedesktop.org.
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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