Re: save-buffer when directory doesn't exist

[Jason Spiro]

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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