Re: Warn when parent directory doesn't exist

[Paul Jackson]

> What about making ed create the missing intermediate directories

Do you mean as in:

    !mkdir -p foo/goo.dir

Yeah - I know - old school geek here - feel free to ignore.

Most likely however, if a directory or directory subtree is
missing on a write command, that's a typo in the pathname,
and should error out, not make a new typo-fied path.

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                Paul Jackson
                pj@usa.net