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Subject: Re: 20.3-b23 behavior of find-file
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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!

I'm not sure what you're referring to.  If I do C-x C-f /tmp/foo/fred.c
where the directory /tmp/foo doesn't exist, both 20.2 and 20.3beta
issue the error message `Finding truename: /tmp/foo/fred.c'.

