From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch: write-file to arbitrary target directory Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:03:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87lk8x9g89.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <86r6ip7k4x.fsf@nirvana.pusto.de> <86d4u9aua7.fsf@nirvana.pusto.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195304751 8072 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2007 13:05:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eduard Wiebe Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 17 14:05:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ItNML-0005wx-BE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:05:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ItNM8-0002qv-4R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:05:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ItNM5-0002qo-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ItNM3-0002qc-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ItNM3-0002qY-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:04:59 -0500 Original-Received: from ppp-53-35.21-151.libero.it ([151.21.35.53] helo=ambire.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ItNM3-0008LY-7q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:04:59 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ItNKQ-0002XN-A5; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:03:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:36:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:83442 Archived-At: () Eli Zaretskii () Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:36:31 +0200 I think you overload the purpose of `confirm' with usage it wasn't invented for, but if others don't object, I won't fight. i think CONFIRM's meaning should not be expanded to include parent directory creation. furthermore, i wonder how the change behaves when the filesystem is remote (tramp), and in the presence of other special filename handling. thi