From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: save-buffer when directory doesn't exist
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:33:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46174932.2030209@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c241693f0704061638u45001846n2c7c352bee2b4b8a@mail.gmail.com>
> I like the new error message much better. But now that I think about
> it, the error message could be improved even more. Instead of
> "/ho,e/j/Desktop/: no such directory", how about this?
>
> Cannot save /ho,e/jspiro/Desktop/todo.txt because directory /ho,e does
> not exist
>
> I did 4 things different in my suggested example: I used the word
> "because"; I added a verbose explanation of why it failed; I left
> out the trailing slash on the directory name since I think it looks
> better that way; and I only mentioned the nonexistent directory /ho,e
> and not its subdirectories.
Then I would have to change the text in `basic-save-buffer-2' as well.
I don't want to think about the consequences of doing that now. BTW,
`file-exists-p' won't tell me which subdirectory doesn't exist.
> By the way, what can be done about the annoying "can't auto-save"
> messages? I wish emacs would just auto-save to /tmp by default.
Are you sure that you get them now? When the directory doesn't exist
`set-visited-file-name' should _not_ be executed and auto-saving should
_not_ try to save the buffer. Anything else wold be a bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-07 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-10 9:43 save-buffer when directory doesn't exist martin rudalics
2007-03-20 8:09 ` Jason Spiro
2007-03-20 9:46 ` martin rudalics
2007-04-06 23:38 ` Jason Spiro
2007-04-07 7:33 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2007-04-08 21:42 ` Jason Spiro
2007-04-09 8:50 ` martin rudalics
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