Subject: bug#6396: closed (Re: bug#6396: 24.0.50; doc string of `make-directory')

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:22:01 +0000

Your bug report

#6396: 24.0.50; doc string of `make-directory'

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#6396: 24.0.50; doc string of `make-directory'
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:20:44 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:44:56 -0700
> Cc: 
> 
> From the doc string:
>  
> "Noninteractively, the second (optional) argument PARENTS says whether
> to create parent directories if they don't exist.  Interactively,
> this happens by default."
>  
> HOW does it say whether to create parent dirs?
> What value(s) say to do that? What value(s) say not to do that?

Fixed in revno 100589.

Subject: 24.0.50; doc string of `make-directory'
From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:44:56 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

>From the doc string:
 
"Noninteractively, the second (optional) argument PARENTS says whether
to create parent directories if they don't exist.  Interactively,
this happens by default."
 
HOW does it say whether to create parent dirs?
What value(s) say to do that? What value(s) say not to do that?
 
"this happens by default": What happens by default? If you mean to say
that for interactive use parent dirs are always created (when
nonexistent), then say that.

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2010-06-07 on 3249CTO
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'