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Re: save-buffer when directory doesn't exist
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Jason Spiro |
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Re: save-buffer when directory doesn't exist |
Date: |
Sun, 8 Apr 2007 17:42:09 -0400 |
2007/4/7, martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:
> I like the new error message much better. But now that I think about
> it, the error message could be improved even more. Instead of
> "/ho,e/j/Desktop/: no such directory", how about this?
>
> Cannot save /ho,e/jspiro/Desktop/todo.txt because directory /ho,e does
> not exist
>
> I did 4 things different in my suggested example: I used the word
> "because"; I added a verbose explanation of why it failed; I left
> out the trailing slash on the directory name since I think it looks
> better that way; and I only mentioned the nonexistent directory /ho,e
> and not its subdirectories.
Then I would have to change the text in `basic-save-buffer-2' as well.
I don't want to think about the consequences of doing that now. BTW,
`file-exists-p' won't tell me which subdirectory doesn't exist.
That's fair. But wouldn't it be better to at least use a more verbose
text like "Cannot save file: no such directory /ho,e/j/Desktop"?
> By the way, what can be done about the annoying "can't auto-save"
> messages? I wish emacs would just auto-save to /tmp by default.
Are you sure that you get them now? When the directory doesn't exist
`set-visited-file-name' should _not_ be executed and auto-saving should
_not_ try to save the buffer. Anything else wold be a bug.
Never mind.
Regards,
Jason
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