From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#6396: 24.0.50; doc string of `make-directory'
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:21:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <huv91t$pgk$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97F917CF5A574BBB8919A5FEEBC1D225@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams wrote:
> From the doc string:
>
> "Noninteractively, the second (optional) argument PARENTS says whether
> to create parent directories if they don't exist. Interactively,
> this happens by default."
>
> HOW does it say whether to create parent dirs?
> What value(s) say to do that? What value(s) say not to do that?
>
> "this happens by default": What happens by default? If you mean to say
> that for interactive use parent dirs are always created (when
> nonexistent), then say that.
Interactively, always create nonexistent parent directories.
Noninteractively, create nonexistent parent directories when the second
(optional) argument PARENTS is non-nil.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-12 6:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 18:44 bug#6396: 24.0.50; doc string of `make-directory' Drew Adams
2010-06-12 6:21 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2010-06-12 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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