GNU bug report logs - #13773
Can't save archive member because of make-directory

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Can't save archive member because of make-directory
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:00:52 -0500

Package: Emacs
Version: 24.3.50


The new "offer to make-directory upon save" is nice, but it breaks the
buffer-save mechanism of zip archive members:

   emacs -Q foo.zip
   Open one of the zip file's members
   Make some change in it
   C-x C-s

This prompts you to create a directory which really already exists
(inside the archive).  It probably affects other packages than arc-mode,
which similarly play with the buffer-save mechanism.


        Stefan

Message #8 received at 13773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 13773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13773: Can't save archive member because of make-directory
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:38:39 -0500

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> The new "offer to make-directory upon save" is nice, but it breaks the
> buffer-save mechanism of zip archive members:

Bah. I guess we either provide some mechanism for modes to disable this
(yuck); or, as has already been suggested, move the make-directory part
after the run-hook-with-args-until-success part. That's semi-yuck (some
hooks might want the directory to exist; some, like archive mode, might
not), but I guess it is good enough.

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