From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:12:00 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Improve dired deletion error handling (Bug#28797)
X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.0.91~369
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=efd0371c23;p=emacs.git

Improve dired deletion error handling (Bug#28797)

* lisp/dired.el (dired-internal-do-deletions): Use
`error-message-string' to produce a human readable error message.
---

diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el
index cf08143de70..f1a74639a94 100644
--- a/lisp/dired.el
+++ b/lisp/dired.el
@@ -3144,7 +3144,7 @@ non-empty directories is allowed."
 		       #'dired-delete-entry fn))
                   (quit (throw '--delete-cancel (message "OK, canceled")))
 		  (error ;; catch errors from failed deletions
-		   (dired-log "%s\n" err)
+		   (dired-log "%s: %s\n" (car err) (error-message-string err))
 		   (setq failures (cons (car (car l)) failures)))))
 	      (setq l (cdr l)))
 	    (if (not failures)