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).

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