Funny. I just tried it before I posted and it did create the file and the inbetween directories at the end of the path. I'm on Windows and your path looks like Linux but I wouldn't think that would make a difference. I don't know what the @all is supposed to do so I have no opinion as to whether it changed the behavior.
On Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 7:40:04 AM UTC-4 jkn wrote: > Interesting ... I was the person who raised the earlier topic I presume > you are referring to. And I actually tried Thomas' settings suggestion ... > and it didn't work for me. > > Or at least, IIRC I had to use a particular combination of @path and > @clean nodes to get it to work ... and in a way that I was not yet able to > decide if there is leo bug, or in my understanding of how this should work. > > I have a part-draft of a posting on this. I will try to finish it, but I > think I had: > > @path /path/to/new/directory > @clean mynewfile.txt # has '@all' > node1 # with contents > > and I was expecting this to create /path/to/new/directory/mynewfile.txt > ... but it wasn't > > > > > > > On Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 11:05:32 AM UTC+1 Israel Hands wrote: > >> And indeed it does. First it labels the new directory with */Directory/* >> - saving the outline doesn't create it. But adding a file node with @file >> or @auto created both file and directory. Is there a reason why creating >> directories directly in path without any file contents would be a bad thing? >> >> ta >> >> IH >> >> On Thursday 17 October 2024 at 10:56:55 UTC+1 Israel Hands wrote: >> >>> I've just noticed a similar ish question just a few lines below mine, >>> sorry for not noticing that. If I enable the create missing directories >>> will all my troubles be gone. I'm going to try now. >>> >>> On Thursday 17 October 2024 at 10:53:45 UTC+1 Israel Hands wrote: >>> >>>> I use path to create the directory node - fine. However Leo will not >>>> create the directory in the file system until a file is created within the >>>> directory. >>>> So I could create the directory and file in the file system but that >>>> isn't as neat as making Leo do the work. >>>> So I create an @auto node in the as yet uncreated (in the file system) >>>> directory node and Leo complains when I try to save the outline because it >>>> can't save the @auto file because the directory doesn't exist. >>>> If I use the write file from node command - it offers the system file >>>> requester which of course does not yet have the directory created in >>>> it..... >>>> >>>> I feel I may be missing the bleeding obvious here! >>>> >>>> Ta >>>> >>>> IH >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/521aac6a-4eb4-4876-9cb6-f7ef834dfa93n%40googlegroups.com.
