From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Creating a directory target for dired-do-copy
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:30:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36cdhoF4ve97gU1@individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.178.1107188275.2841.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Luis O. Silva wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:17:25 -0600, "Luis O. Silva"
<l.o.silva@mail.ru> said:
>
> LS> I'm very grateful for your help, unfortunately it
> LS> doesn't work for me. I put the previous snippet in my
> LS> .emacs file and, after reloading, I typed `C' within
> LS> dired. Then in the minibuffer I typed after Copy [-p]
> LS> file-test to:
>
> LS> ~/temporary/non-existing-file/
>
> Sorry for answering my own post, but it was written
> incorrectly.
>
> LS> where non-existing-file is a non-existing file.
>
> Here I mean non-existing directory.
Right, I'd guessed that.
> LS> Emacs says
>
> LS> File exists: /home/silva/temporary/non-existing-file/
>
> LS> Actually after loading the snippet, Emacs says the
> LS> same even for an existing directory!
>
> LS> I tried to correct the code, but it seems that I
> LS> don't understand it. Any hint will be enormously
> LS> appreciated.
It turns out the code tries to be too smart and do too much. Just
delete the second form in the advice (and the second sentence of its doc
string), leaving:
(defadvice dired-mark-read-file-name (after make-directory activate)
"Create non-existent directories for the result, as necessary."
(let ((directory (file-name-directory ad-return-value)))
(unless (file-directory-p directory)
(make-directory directory t))))
--
Kevin Rodgers
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2005-01-28 15:09 ` Creating a directory target for dired-do-copy Kevin Rodgers
2005-01-30 18:17 ` Luis O. Silva
2005-01-31 17:07 ` Luis O. Silva
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2005-02-02 16:30 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2005-02-03 22:06 ` Luis O. Silva
2005-01-24 21:32 Luis O. Silva
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