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From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Deric Bytes <dericbytes@gmail.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: prompt to create non existent directory.
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:53:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANc-5UyhJHLpsCqUcHeU7FWCJVu_pxTttTxhyCCsuD06rbceZw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4278608a-d510-46f5-9cdc-3033a2edecbf@googlegroups.com>

It happens infrequently enough for me that it doesn't seem to be a great
burden. If it helps, you can probably shorten "make-directory" to:

mak TAB -d TAB RET

Skip

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Deric Bytes <dericbytes@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why does emacs not prompt for y/n to create non existent directories.
> Surely this would be a better option than throwing an error or asking the
> user to type M-x make-directory.
>
> Is there a better way to add this feature to dired-do-copy instead of this
> method
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12994164/allow-
> dired-do-copy-and-dired-do-rename-to-create-new-dir-on-the-fly
>


  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-27 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-27 19:36 prompt to create non existent directory Deric Bytes
2017-10-27 19:53 ` Skip Montanaro [this message]
2017-10-30  1:43   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-27 20:10 ` tomas
2017-10-27 22:52   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-28  7:01     ` tomas
2017-11-02  9:44       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-02 10:57         ` tomas
2017-11-02 13:03           ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-02 13:19             ` tomas
2017-11-02 14:25               ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-02 14:44                 ` tomas
2017-11-02 15:06                   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-02 15:17                     ` tomas
2017-10-28  0:48   ` Nick Helm
2017-10-28  7:20     ` Amos Bird
     [not found] ` <mailman.2358.1509135046.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-10-28 19:41   ` Deric Bytes
2017-10-28 19:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2416.1509220530.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-10-28 20:20       ` Deric Bytes

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