From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Erroneous make-directory hint Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 04:47:02 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200305281047.h4SAl2I06144@sharps.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054143805 17630 80.91.224.249 (28 May 2003 17:43:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:43:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 28 19:43:24 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19L4xB-0004YV-00 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 19:43:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19L4yw-0004UX-2A for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2003 13:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19L4yk-0004D7-BU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2003 13:44:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19L4xi-0003yw-W0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2003 13:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from sharps.lanl.gov ([128.165.228.170]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19L4xd-0003wh-RY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2003 13:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: (from xstudent@localhost) by sharps.lanl.gov (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h4SAl2I06144; Wed, 28 May 2003 04:47:02 -0600 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5184 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5184 In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2002-04-08 on porky.devel.redhat.com configured using `configure i386-redhat-linux --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop --with-sound' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.iso885915 locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: The message given when visiting a file in a nonexistent directory is Use M-x make-directory RET RET to create the directory , or Use C-u M-x make-directory RET RET to create directory and its parents for a file whose directory's parent is also nonexistent. However, make-directory always makes parents if invoked interactively, and only requires one press of RET to confirm. So a `C-u' is wasted by the help message, and the extra RET just goes into the buffer if pressed. Recent input: Recent messages: Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang.emacs.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/php-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/psgml-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/ruby-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading time...done Loading regexp-opt...done Loading advice...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading emacsbug...done