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authorLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2019-07-13 17:13:12 +0200
committerLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2019-07-13 17:13:12 +0200
commite6b40fe511f86524c0e1aa84abc9aef1cab5d706 (patch)
treed01c82ce0a8a40971d8869ac24523a207e3f7ec7 /lisp/savehist.el
parent82e799f71d454367e71782df1e4b0440681334cb (diff)
downloademacs-e6b40fe511f86524c0e1aa84abc9aef1cab5d706.tar.gz
Don't have savehist-save bug out on non-existing directory
* lisp/savehist.el (savehist-save): Ensure that the directory exists before saving (bug#31348).
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/savehist.el b/lisp/savehist.el
index 7e6ccd91c72..83591310829 100644
--- a/lisp/savehist.el
+++ b/lisp/savehist.el
@@ -299,7 +299,11 @@ If AUTO-SAVE is non-nil, compare the saved contents to the one last saved,
;; kill-emacs-hook, and also that multiple Emacs instances
;; could write to this file at once.
(let ((file-precious-flag t)
- (coding-system-for-write savehist-coding-system))
+ (coding-system-for-write savehist-coding-system)
+ (dir (file-name-directory savehist-file)))
+ ;; Ensure that the directory exists before saving.
+ (unless (file-exists-p dir)
+ (make-directory dir t))
(write-region (point-min) (point-max) savehist-file nil
(unless (called-interactively-p 'interactive) 'quiet)))
(when savehist-file-modes