From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: ffap: Directory does not exist, create it? Yeah sure, without permission Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 02:30:15 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87smu960g8.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Dan Jacobson NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046386705 18299 80.91.224.249 (27 Feb 2003 22:58:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:58:25 +0000 (UTC) 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 18oWyu-0004kd-00 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:58:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oWyI-0007ER-00 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:57:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oWy4-00079n-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:57:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oWy2-00075a-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:57:31 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oWy1-00072a-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oWxi-0004eL-00 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:57:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oWxg-0004e2-00 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:57:08 +0100 Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) 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:4524 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4524 Using ffap, many a mistype causes the often seen Directory does not exist, create it? (y or n) Well, as 99% of the time, the answer is n, at least it could check if the user could indeed create a dir there before asking, as the answer would be Creating directory: permission denied, /etc/nurdly/ anyway. Better would be just to assist the user in typing the names of existing files, i.e. don't wipe out what he has typed so far... -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780