From: Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prompt to create non existent directory.
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:48:57 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24lqkf66e.fsf@tenpoint.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171027201031.GD29934@tuxteam.de> (tomas's message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:10:31 +0200")
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 at 22:10:31 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:36:41PM -0700, Deric Bytes 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.
>
> It has learnt to do that (I can't say since when, but "my" 27.0.50
> does exactly what you wish: very convenient).
Same here on 26.0.90. Seems this feature will be in the next release.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-28 0:48 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
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 [this message]
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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