Close buffer and delete underlying file

[tobiaskohlbau]

I would like to have an option to delete files from within helix itself. AFAIK there is only the option to use the shell command to rm a file.

Lets assume I've a file called hello.world and I want to delete it. I imagine something like the following to delete the current open file and close the buffer.

1. f -> hello.world
2. :delete

Would this something be considered worth adding into helix?

[Omnikar]

I'm not sure I like the idea of being able to really easily rm a file from Helix (and closing the buffer means that there's no way to recover it using Helix), especially since it would be a command that could potentially be accidentally autocompleted; if we were to add this, I'd want it to utilize the system's "trash" mechanism, rather than rm-ing the file.

[tobiaskohlbau]

I strongly agree that this implementation should be aware of system specific trash mechanism.

Any ideas around that, does linux have a general trash mechanism or is it distro specific? I know for Windows and MacOs there are unified trash directories. I will try to research this for linux.

[tobiaskohlbau]

Looks like the answer was quiet simple to find there exists a The FreeDesktop.org Trash specification which stated by https://github.com/Byron/trash-rs/blob/fcf6bb5eded49de4fedb40513c949f11c6da0b12/src/freedesktop.rs#L1-L7 is implemented by all common distros and DE.

I'm not aware about the dependency guidelines for this repo. Would it be okay to add the dependency on something like Byron/trash-rs (https://crates.io/crates/trash) or should this be implemented within the project itself?

[the-mikedavis]

IMO file management bumps with the idea of a text editor. I think supporting file management through :sh and a file variable in a custom keymap would be ok (so #3134 plus #2757 to solve this use-case) but I don't like the idea of building file-management in.

[tobiaskohlbau]

That would be a feasible solution for me, too. I can unterstand the desire to keep file-management out from the editor. Command substitutions would be really nice. Maybe it's worth contributing to #3134.Feel free to close this issue as not relevant within the core.

I think #4393 should be getting the same information about command substitutions being a better option instead ab baking in file-management as it's quiet similar to this issue.

[QiBaobin]

We can use archive this by :cmds sh rm %val {filename} && buffer-close once #3393 and #4773 merged