Hello,
I have tried following commands to test the patch over my CLI (my .nanorc file is, still, blank) -
./nano foo/bar
./nano -G foo/bar
./nano -B foo/bar
If directory 'foo' doesn't exists, then it reports back on statusbar in a way similar to what nano already does when trying to edit a directory ('./nano ../doc'). It achieves same but I made many changes. I am summarizing them below.
I abandoned the code I sent last time, as there was no need to search for slashes in input filename because libraries we use (libgen.h and sys/stat.h) already provides functions to achieve the same effect. Also, I thought over to rename patch's determine() to be more descriptive (determine solely sounds ambiguous as it does not tell what does it determine) but I could not find any name as concise as names (of functions) nano already has.
Variable 'mistakes_in_path' is essentially same as variable 'mistakes' in last patch (it stores number of mistakes in path of file) except that it now has bool data-type as we directly (and only) report non-existent directories.
All my previous patches had whitespaces so I changed my rcfile of text editor I am currently using.
bug#44950.patch