Re: Warn when parent directory doesn't exist

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Paul Jackson wrote:
> > 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.

But for less knowledgeable users, making ed automatically create any missing 
intermediate directories is more convenient. (And I have already implemented 
it).

> 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.

Do you mean as the mkdir command above would error out if you mistype the 
dir? ;-)

You are probably right for your use case. But maybe other people want to use 
ed to create files in not-yet-existing directories.

BTW, if nobody asks for more features, I'll probably release ed 1.20-pre3 
tomorrow.

Antonio.