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Article #100012Automatic directory creation
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 00:49
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 00:49
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GNU Emacs 18.55.1 of Tue Oct 31 1989 on marat (hpux) Current GNU Emacs does not have a "create directory" function. This would be especially useful when one's reorganizing one's files and thus creating new directory structure. The simplest and most intuitive interface I can think of would create directories as necessary for write and rename operations. It should presumably not do this without asking. From a reprogramming point of view, it might be easiest to put this in read-file-name and expand-file-name. That is, if you tried to do completion on a non-existent directory, it would ask you: "Create directory foo/bar/q (y or n)?". Are there any cases where (interactive "F") or read-file-name does not expect to create the new file if it does not exist?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,3e542273118d0877,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-03-05 16:49:18 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ri.osf.fr!macrakis From: macrakis@ri.osf.fr (Stavros Macrakis) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Automatic directory creation Message-ID: <9003051650.AA26830@mururoa.imag.fr> Date: 6 Mar 90 00:49:18 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 17 Posted: Tue Mar 6 01:49:18 1990