Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED]

[Michael Albinus]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Yuri,

>> When I have trashed a file, say "/ssh:ford:/tmp/xxx", it appears as
>> "/home/albinus/.local/share/Trash/files/xxx", in the local trash can.
>> "/home/albinus/.local/share/Trash/info/xxx.trashinfo" contains the line
>>
>> Path=/ssh%3aford%3a/tmp/xxx
>>
>> as expected.
>
> What do other file managers do when trashing a file from a network
> file system into the home trash? The spec is unclear on the intended
> path format in this case, although it mentions that trashing over the
> network is possible.

Locally, I have nautilus. It doesn't offer to trash remote files.

> It is unfortunate if Emacs puts remote file names in Tramp syntax but
> all other file managers use, e.g., URL syntax.

This could be changed in move-file-to-trash. Since trashing remote files
to the local trash is a pretty new feature of the master branch, we
don't need to think about backward compatibility.

Best regards, Michael.