Preserve/exclude specific directories from removal?

[niksfirefly]

I wonder is it possible to
Preserve/exclude specific directories from removal?
I like to use fast and easy
remove --permanently --force
with yazi
but for sake of security option to exclude specific / dirs or ${HOME} dirs could be fantastic
for example
remove --permanently --force --exclude:"/,/bin,/lib/${HOME/bin}"

regards

[hankertrix]

The current implementation of the augmented remove command is simply a wrapper around Yazi’s default remove command. Such a feature would require reimplementing Yazi’s remove command, which is far more complicated.

I think you should submit this feature request to Yazi itself, as it is more appropriate for it to be implemented upstream.

[hankertrix]

After thinking about this for a bit, I think it is possible to implement this functionality without reimplementing the remove command.

I'm thinking of just removing the --force flag from the remove command when you try to remove something in the excluded directories.

The excluded directories will likely be passed as a configuration option to the plugin, so that the plugin doesn't need to parse the exclude string every single time it is called. This way, the excluded directories can also be used to exclude directories from being force deleted using other commands, such as the extract command, for example.

Let me know what you think about this.

[hankertrix]

This feature has been implemented as described above. It will be released with the next Yazi release.