s> I've been wanting to modify write-file, to make it ask the user s> if a non-existing directory should be created, rather than s> throwing an error about it, but wanted to see what other folks s> would say about it, before submitting a patch for it. There's already at least one function that does this. It may be a VM function. Find it (them), and think about modifying the callers (including keymaps) to use it (the best one). It might be worth adding to the core if it isn't in already. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.