mkupfer@acornrc.UUCP (Mike Kupfer) (03/07/88)
I'm writing some Emacs lisp that creates a directory and populates it
with various files. I can't seem to find a function that creates a
directory. The best I've been able to do is use shell-command, which
means that errors are handled by popping up a window with the error
message in it (blech).
Question #1: Am I missing something, or is 18.50 really missing a
mkdir function?
Question #2: If I really have to write my own, is there a better way to
do it in Lisp, or is shell-command the best I can do? (I don't want to
bother writing a new primitive in C - this is as much an exercise in
learning Emacs lisp as it is an attempt to produce useful code.)
thanks,
mike
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{decwrl!acornrc, ames!acornrc, oliveb}!orc!kupfer ucbvax!kupferwolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) (03/07/88)
In article <648@acornrc.UUCP> mkupfer@acornrc.UUCP (Mike Kupfer) writes: >I can't seem to find a function that creates a directory. The best >I've been able to do is use shell-command, which means that errors >are handled by popping up a window with the error message in it >(blech). Instead of shell-command you can try: call-process: Call PROGRAM in separate process. Program's input comes from file INFILE (nil means /dev/null). Insert output in BUFFER before point; t means current buffer; nil for BUFFER means discard it; 0 means discard and don't wait. Fourth arg DISPLAY non-nil means redisplay buffer as output is inserted. Remaining arguments are strings passed as command arguments to PROGRAM. This function waits for PROGRAM to terminate; if you quit, the process is killed. This is the "raw" interface that shell-command uses. --- Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) 326 Commonwealth Ave. UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang Boston, Ma. 02115 TEL: (617) 267-4365
igb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian G Batten <BattenIG>) (03/09/88)
In article <648@acornrc.UUCP> mkupfer@acornrc.UUCP (Mike Kupfer) writes: >I can't seem to find a function that creates a directory. The best >I've been able to do is use shell-command, which means that errors >are handled by popping up a window with the error message in it >(blech). A woman here has added a mkdir function for a similar task. She's actually done it on VMS, but the code will be identical. Mail GOWER%comp-v1.bham.ac.uk@cunyvn.cuny.edu (or ...!ukc!bhamcr!GOWER if you must, but we'd rather you didn't) and ask for the code. -- ian