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

From: Kevin Rodgers <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:21:50 -0600

Drew Adams wrote:
> 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.

Interactively, always create nonexistent parent directories.
Noninteractively, create nonexistent parent directories when the second
(optional) argument PARENTS is non-nil.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA