feat: ":write ++p" creates parent dirs #20835

- `:write ++p foo/bar/baz.txt` should create parent directories `foo/bar/` if
   they do not exist
    - Note: `:foo ++…` is usually for options. No existing options have
      a single-char abbreviation (presumably by design), so it's safe to
      special-case `++p` here.
- Same for `writefile(…, 'foo/bar/baz.txt', 'p')`
- `BufWriteCmd` can see the ++p flag via `v:cmdarg`.

closes #19884

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/nvim/eval/funcs.c b/src/nvim/eval/funcs.c
index 1492a2d30d..5fcbc40623 100644
--- a/src/nvim/eval/funcs.c
+++ b/src/nvim/eval/funcs.c
@@ -9970,6 +9970,7 @@ static void f_writefile(typval_T *argvars, typval_T *rettv, EvalFuncData fptr)
   bool binary = false;
   bool append = false;
   bool do_fsync = !!p_fs;
+  bool mkdir_p = false;
   if (argvars[2].v_type != VAR_UNKNOWN) {
     const char *const flags = tv_get_string_chk(&argvars[2]);
     if (flags == NULL) {
@@ -9985,6 +9986,8 @@ static void f_writefile(typval_T *argvars, typval_T *rettv, EvalFuncData fptr)
         do_fsync = true; break;
       case 'S':
         do_fsync = false; break;
+      case 'p':
+        mkdir_p = true; break;
       default:
         // Using %s, p and not %c, *p to preserve multibyte characters
         semsg(_("E5060: Unknown flag: %s"), p);
@@ -10004,6 +10007,7 @@ static void f_writefile(typval_T *argvars, typval_T *rettv, EvalFuncData fptr)
     emsg(_("E482: Can't open file with an empty name"));
   } else if ((error = file_open(&fp, fname,
                                 ((append ? kFileAppend : kFileTruncate)
+                                 | (mkdir_p ? kFileMkDir : kFileCreate)
                                  | kFileCreate), 0666)) != 0) {
     semsg(_("E482: Can't open file %s for writing: %s"),
           fname, os_strerror(error));