Re: Bug in write-file

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From: Joseph Wells
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 03:28

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worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) writes:

   Summary:  Write-file produces a strange error message when given a
   file name in a nonexistant directory.

jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:

   Ok, here's a fix in diff format.

   [my patch deleted]

David Lawrence (tale) pointed out that default-directory is not guaranteed
to be the same as (file-name-directory buffer-file-name).  Thus, the fix I
posted wasn't guaranteed to work properly in all cases.

I'm including a correct fix.

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@bu.edu>
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*** /usr14/gnu/dist-18.55/lisp/files.el	Tue Aug 15 22:31:12 1989
--- files.el	Thu Sep  6 23:26:45 1990
***************
*** 660,663 ****
--- 660,666 ----
  		    default-directory (file-name-directory buffer-file-name))
  	      (auto-save-mode auto-save-default)))
+     	(if (not (file-directory-p (file-name-directory buffer-file-name)))
+     	    (error "Directory %s doesn't exist!"
+ 		   (file-name-directory buffer-file-name)))
  	(if (not (file-writable-p buffer-file-name))
  	    (if (yes-or-no-p

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From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joseph Wells)
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Subject: Re: Bug in write-file
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Date: 7 Sep 90 03:28:28 GMT
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