[Bug: 21.5-b28] C-x C-s immediately after C-x C-f does the wrong thing, I think

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an fichiú lá de mí Feabhra, scríobh Rodney Sparapani: 

 > robert delius royar wrote:
 >
 > > If I were to mistype a directory name within the path to the file, what 
 > > would the action be?  Now, I am asked if I wish to create the directory. 
 > > If I answer "no," then I get a buffer with that filename.  It is not 
 > > modified, so I can delete the buffer without answering another question.
 > > 
 > > I would want similar action in a revised C-x-C-f.
 > 
 > Hi Robert:
 > 
 > I have found that answering No is pretty useless and just hit C-g
 > and start all over again.  I'm wondering if a No answer should have
 > the same effect as C-g. 

I think it should. 

 > Does anyone know what was intended by allowing No to create a buffer
 > without a directory? If you try to save the buffer, it just complains
 > that the directory does not exist anyways.

It’s just that the original design was bad, as far as I can tell. If the
directory doesn’t exist, you’ve probably just mistyped it; my impression is
that I’ve never got the warning in the context it seems to have been written
for, I have never wanted to create the directory. But then people’s usage
patterns vary, I also never use the meta key, something most emacs people
find odd. 

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