From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nick Helm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: prompt to create non existent directory. 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Surely this >> would be a better option than throwing an error or asking the user to type M-x >> make-directory. > > It has learnt to do that (I can't say since when, but "my" 27.0.50 > does exactly what you wish: very convenient). Same here on 26.0.90. Seems this feature will be in the next release.