GNU bug report logs - #6396
24.0.50; doc string of `make-directory'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:47:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6396: 24.0.50; doc string of `make-directory'
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
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