The behavior has changed in commit
1a65afb7ec to no longer signal an error
on ENOENT.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Changing Files): Fix documentation about
error reporting.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Changing Files): Change name of last
argument of function `copy-file' from `preserve-extended-attributes'
to `preserve-permissions', as used in the function's description, its
doc string and the description below in the manual.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Changing Files):
* lisp/files.el (file-modes-number-to-symbolic): Clarify the
confusion with "symbolic" forms of file modes. (Bug#61709)
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Relative File Names)
(Testing Accessibility, File Name Expansion): Document and index
the behavior with empty strings as file names.
This new feature will help fix a copy-directory bug (Bug#58919).
Its implementation does not rely on make-directory handlers
supporting the new feature, as it no longer uses a make-directory
handler H in any way other than (funcall H DIR), thus using
only the intersection of the old and new behavior for handlers.
This will give us time to fix handlers at our leisure.
* lisp/files.el (files--ensure-directory): New arg MKDIR.
All uses changed.
(files--ensure-directory, make-directory):
Return non-nil if DIR is already a directory. All uses changed.
* test/lisp/files-tests.el (files-tests-make-directory):
Test new return-value convention.
Formerly, the code supported both make-directory and
make-directory-internal handlers. This led to confusion and meant than
in a few cases (nnmaildir, ido) remote directories could not be used in
some cases. Fix this by using only make-directory handlers.
Perhaps there used to be a reason for why there were both
make-directory and make-directory-internal handlers, but whatever that
reason was, it seems to have vanished even before now.
There is no longer any need for make-directory-internal handlers, as
the few remaining callers that use make-directory-internal do so only
when there are no handlers. However, this change keeps the existing
make-directory-internal handlers for now, in case this code is ever
used in older Emacs versions that still call those handlers.
* lisp/gnus/nnmaildir.el (nnmaildir--mkdir):
* lisp/ido.el (ido-file-internal):
* lisp/net/tramp-smb.el (tramp-smb-handle-make-directory):
Use make-directory, not make-directory-internal.
* lisp/net/tramp-smb.el (tramp-smb-handle-make-directory-internal):
Now obsolete.
* src/fileio.c (Fmake_directory_internal): Do not look for or
use a make-directory-internal handler.
* test/lisp/files-tests.el:
(files-tests-file-name-non-special-make-directory-internal):
Remove, as this test incorrectly assumes that make-directory-internal
must support handlers.
* lisp/files.el (file-in-directory-p): Clarify doc string.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Truenames): Move the documentation of
'file-in-directory-p' from here...
(Contents of Directories): ...to here. Add index entries.
(Bug#58364)
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Directory Names):
* lisp/files.el (file-parent-directory): Improve wording of the
documentation of 'file-parent-directory'. (Bug#56355)
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Reading from Files): Document it.
* src/fileio.c (Finsert_file_contents): Allow specifying END for
special files (bug#18370).
Change current-time and related functions back to using the
traditional list form. Also, add a new boolean variable
current-time-list that lets people try out (TICKS . HZ) form,
with the goal of smoothing the transition.
* src/timefns.c (CURRENT_TIME_LIST): Change default back to true.
(current-time-list): New boolean Lisp variable, which defaults to
CURRENT_TIME_LIST. All uses of CURRENT_TIME_LIST changed to
use current_time_list, and all documentation changed.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Name Components): Document it.
* lisp/files.el (file-name-split): New function (bug#50572).
* lisp/emacs-lisp/shortdoc.el (file-name): Mention it.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Attributes): Be precise when
filename does not exist in `file-has-changed-p'.
* lisp/files.el (file-has-changed-p): Suppress remote file caches.
Handle the case FILE does not exists.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Attributes): Document it.
* lisp/files.el (file-has-changed-p): New function.
(file-has-changed-p--hash-table): Internal variable used by the
new function (bug#51523).
* lisp/emacs-lisp/shortdoc.el (file): Mention it.
* lisp/net/mailcap.el (mailcap-parse-mailcaps): Read mailcaps again
only when at least one of the mailcap files has changed. Fixes
bug#51523.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Reading from files): When the argument BEG or END to
insert-file-contents are at a byte position not at a character boundary,
clarify that raw bytes get inserted, and how to handle this awkwardness in
Lisp. Also clarify that insert-file-contents-literally is intended to insert
raw bytes into the buffer. Fix the outdated example that states it inserts
500 characters, when it actually inserts 500 bytes.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Saving Buffers): Document it.
* lisp/files.el (file-preserve-symlinks-on-save): New user option
(bug#18125).
(basic-save-buffer-2): Use it.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Directory Names): Document it.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/shortdoc.el (file-name): Add new example.
* src/fileio.c (Fdirectory_append): Change the function to take an
arbitrary number of components.
