Create subdirectories automatically in wdired

* lisp/wdired.el (wdired-create-parent-directories): New
variable (bug#6817).
(wdired-create-parentdirs): New function.
(wdired-do-renames): Use it.
* doc/emacs/dired.texi (Wdired): Mention
`wdired-create-parent-directories'

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 29b013a3ede..c12f4d19cf1 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1426,6 +1426,12 @@ compression command is determined from the new
 `dired-compress-files-alist' variable.
 
 +++
+*** In wdired, when editing files to contain slash characters,
+the resulting directories are automatically created.  Whether
+to do this or not is controlled by the
+`wdired-create-parent-directories' variable.
+
++++
 *** `W' is now bound to `browse-url-of-dired-file', and is useful for
 viewing HTML files and the like.