From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: prompt to create non existent directory. Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:43:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4278608a-d510-46f5-9cdc-3033a2edecbf@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509327867 2748 195.159.176.226 (30 Oct 2017 01:44:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 01:44:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 30 02:44:23 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 1e8z7f-0007z7-WC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 02:44:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8z7n-0002zH-Ff for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8z7O-0002z1-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:43:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8z7L-0004SF-EW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:43:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56169 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e8z7L-0004Rs-7g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e8z6w-0003e6-Qc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 02:43:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:W0JtHOuLG78tHZUyS54v+9PS/lk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:114696 Archived-At: > It happens infrequently enough for me that it doesn't seem to be a great > burden. If it helps, you can probably shorten "make-directory" to: > > mak TAB -d TAB RET Also, doing `M-x make-directory RET` will usually tell you (after you specified the dir to use) that you could have used `M-x m-dir RET`. Stefan