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* prompt to create non existent directory.
@ 2017-10-27 19:36 Deric Bytes
  2017-10-27 19:53 ` Skip Montanaro
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From: Deric Bytes @ 2017-10-27 19:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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


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2017-10-27 19:53 ` Skip Montanaro
2017-10-30  1:43   ` Stefan Monnier
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2017-10-27 22:52   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-28  7:01     ` tomas
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2017-11-02 14:25               ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-02 14:44                 ` tomas
2017-11-02 15:06                   ` Emanuel Berg
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2017-10-28 19:41   ` Deric Bytes
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