(dired-create-directory): Allow creating

a directory of an arbitrary depth.  Add a loop to find the topmost
nonexistent parent dir `new', and call `dired-add-file' on it.
Set the `PARENTS' arg of `make-directory' to t.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 0cfe7fe704d..d0fb5ef28da 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-11-17  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
+
+        * dired-aux.el (dired-create-directory): Allow creating
+        a directory of an arbitrary depth.  Add a loop to find the topmost
+        nonexistent parent dir `new', and call `dired-add-file' on it.
+        Set the `PARENTS' arg of `make-directory' to t.
+
 2007-11-16  Jay Belanger  <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
 
         * calc/calc-aent.el (calc-last-user-lang-parse-table): New variable.
diff --git a/lisp/dired-aux.el b/lisp/dired-aux.el
index 321a7f67932..1ac6208313a 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-aux.el
+++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el
@@ -1578,10 +1578,16 @@ Optional arg HOW-TO is used to set the value of the into-dir variable
   "Create a directory called DIRECTORY."
   (interactive
    (list (read-file-name "Create directory: " (dired-current-directory))))
-  (let ((expanded (directory-file-name (expand-file-name directory))))
-    (make-directory expanded)
-    (dired-add-file expanded)
-    (dired-move-to-filename)))
+  (let* ((expanded (directory-file-name (expand-file-name directory)))
+         (try expanded) new)
+    ;; Find the topmost nonexistent parent dir (variable `new')
+    (while (and try (not (file-exists-p try)) (not (equal new try)))
+      (setq new try
+            try (directory-file-name (file-name-directory try))))
+    (make-directory expanded t)
+    (when new
+      (dired-add-file new)
+      (dired-move-to-filename))))
 
 (defun dired-into-dir-with-symlinks (target)
   (and (file-directory-p target)