GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
25.10 Creating and Deleting Directories
Most Emacs Lisp file-manipulation functions get errors when used on
files that are directories. For example, you cannot delete a directory
with delete-file. These special functions exist to create and
delete directories.
- Function: make-directory dirname &optional parents
- This function creates a directory named dirname.
If parents is non-
nil, that means to create
the parent directories first, if they don't already exist.
- Function: delete-directory dirname
- This function deletes the directory named dirname. The function
delete-file does not work for files that are directories; you
must use delete-directory for them. If the directory contains
any files, delete-directory signals an error.
