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Subject: Re: 20.3-b23 behavior of find-file 
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:30:58 -0400
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From: Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>

>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:


    sb> Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:
    >> I see that the behavior of find-file now is different from 20.2 and
    >> earlier with respect to creating the directory if it doesn't already
    >> exist.  I hate it.  Do what I mean, damn it, I know it doesn't exist
    >> so ask me to create it!

    >> Any way to get the old behavior back?

    sb> I did some more digging to attempt to figure out what you meant and
    sb> found this patch 20.3-beta1 -> 20.3-beta2:

[patch deleted]

Yep.  That looks like what I see.  I really hate this.  What was the
reasoning for this?  A gratuitous change if I ever saw one.

Can I convince anyone to change it back or at least a work around? :-)

Ray

