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bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory
From: |
Al Haji-Ali |
Subject: |
bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:08:35 +0100 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 1.5.13; emacs 27.2 |
On 23/07/2021, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In dired, if I delete a directory called `~` (not related to home
>> directory, I created this directory by mistake) and delete it, dired
>> deletes the home directory instead.
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 27.2 or 28. Here's my test case:
>
> touch '/tmp/~'
> emacs -Q /tmp/
>
> Then hit `D yes RET' on the ~ file.
>
> That deletes /tmp/~ for me, and not the home directory.
>
> Do you have a step-by-step recipe, starting from "emacs -Q" for how to
> reproduce the problem you're seeing?
Apologies, I should have specified that I have `delete-by-moving-to-trash` set
to `t`.
Otherwise, the exact steps you mentioned reproduce this for me on 27.2
If I keep `delete-by-moving-to-trash` as the default nil, I don't see this
behaviour.
-- Al
- bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory, Al Haji-Ali, 2021/07/23
- bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/23
- bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory,
Al Haji-Ali <=
- bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/24
- bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/24
- bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/24
- bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/24
- bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/24
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- bug#49711: 27.2; Deleting a directory called ~ deletes home directory, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/24