From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6396: 24.0.50; doc string of `make-directory' Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:21:50 -0600 Message-ID: References: <97F917CF5A574BBB8919A5FEEBC1D225@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276324115 26892 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2010 06:28:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:28:35 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 12 08:28:34 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONKCn-0004Xk-M4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:22:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51448) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONK6X-0000yA-7Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONK6S-0002bA-JM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:22:00 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:22:00 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:22:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) In-Reply-To: <97F917CF5A574BBB8919A5FEEBC1D225@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:23:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:37712 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > From the doc string: > > "Noninteractively, the second (optional) argument PARENTS says whether > to create parent directories if they don't exist. Interactively, > this happens by default." > > HOW does it say whether to create parent dirs? > What value(s) say to do that? What value(s) say not to do that? > > "this happens by default": What happens by default? If you mean to say > that for interactive use parent dirs are always created (when > nonexistent), then say that. Interactively, always create nonexistent parent directories. Noninteractively, create nonexistent parent directories when the second (optional) argument PARENTS is non-nil. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA