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.