From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: prompt to create non existent directory. Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:10:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20171027201031.GD29934@tuxteam.de> References: <4278608a-d510-46f5-9cdc-3033a2edecbf@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509135080 14023 195.159.176.226 (27 Oct 2017 20:11:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:11:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 27 22:11:17 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e8AyB-0002NA-Pf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:11:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58833 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8AyJ-0004Wu-7e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8Axn-0004Wo-OH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8Axk-0007r7-JK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:10:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:34496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8Axk-0007g8-99 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:10:40 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=20171004; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:Date; bh=YNVxQGNXFmRcZKeWElzCyasaObPI+NNNwEZf9cvEx6I=; b=K8nJ0InDpi1CteQsyDuDuOyaYspjlaIjulLAYBBD/8imslutqqXRy2HT3OK8iWvpH1PuYHTcp/72GPRd/dvscj3n7wDYmuH3NnuxO0bRvgzSXCsGRF+P1vYdUc9CUjHbhcFI2HFWWO8rIpm9cJw/ZG4kpCRifgmLlsPX9D5uQ1BOaEc/KkK7BMwPWaJfYgzDGrW4SKJpvyngTQFXmL5CaQDWwm3QNK/J0RMW4+C6ZaCFH3hMU7FDKLJAHZmvRZ+Nkq4cnFcWAkZrsMDhuv4XhcFP/UOqKKQbDlguhhlAjY3THk1rhqDu/IJj/JIGV/XWDQEum1bI7qvDCF54M5+JyQ==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1e8Axb-0008Dy-1d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:10:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4278608a-d510-46f5-9cdc-3033a2edecbf@googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114666 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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). Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlnzkrYACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaC1QCeL+Oe/J5DxStW3KiY8ye5Nlb3 TTQAnib+tz2z+eJy8Zx5MYavHsxR6TCw =+iN1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----