From 2105bb4fe50136e46b5a49f483569c7621419a85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nova <email@nova.gay>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 01:04:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] improvenments to delete function; need to handle filled dir
 still

---
 interactions.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/interactions.c b/interactions.c
index d20f558..4af8ed8 100644
--- a/interactions.c
+++ b/interactions.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include <curses.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <dirent.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <strings.h>
 #include <signal.h>
@@ -394,17 +395,17 @@ void delete(){
 	char ch = wgetch(win_b);
 	
 	if (ch == 'y' || ch == 'Y') {
-		char *cmd = malloc(sizeof(char));
 		/* TODO(2025-06-30T02:27:06) IMPORTANT: this really fucks up when the file has a quotation mark in its name */
+		int error;
 		if (hits) {
-			/* the second loop is used to add "./", wich is not being printed" */
+			int j = 2;
 			for (i = 0; i < mid_file_count; i++) {
 				if (mid_content[i].status & FILE_STATUS_SELECTED) {
-					free(cmd);
-					cmd = concat("rm -rf ./\"", mid_content[i].file_name);
-					cmd = concat(cmd, "\"");
-					if (system(cmd) == -1) {
-						FAIL("delete", "rm -rf or creating subcommand failed");
+					error = remove(mid_content[i].file_name);
+					if (error != 0) {
+						mvaddstr(terminal_height-j, 0, "could not delete: " );
+						mvaddstr(terminal_height-j, strlen("could not delete: "), mid_content[i].file_name);
+						j++;
 					}
 				}
 			}
@@ -412,18 +413,18 @@ void delete(){
 			btm_buffer = concat("deleted: ", file_str);
 		} else {
 			free(btm_buffer);
-			btm_buffer = concat("deleted: \"", file_current->file_name);
-			btm_buffer = concat(btm_buffer, "\"");
-			free(cmd);
-			cmd = concat("rm -rf ./\"", file_current->file_name);
-			cmd = concat(cmd, "\"");
-			if (system(cmd) == -1) {
-				FAIL("delete", "rm -rf or creating subcommand failed");
-			}
+			error = remove(file_current->file_name);
+			if (error != 0) {
+				mvaddstr(terminal_height-2, 0, "could not delete: " );
+				mvaddstr(terminal_height-2, strlen("could not delete: "), mid_content[i].file_name);
+				btm_buffer = " ";
+			} else {
+				btm_buffer = concat("deleted: \"", file_current->file_name);
+				btm_buffer = concat(btm_buffer, "\"");
+			} 
 
 		}
 		/*system(cmd);*/
-		free(cmd);
 
 	} else {
 		free(btm_buffer);