Merge pull request #154 from maebert/1.7.19

Create path to journal during installation

.travis.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ python:
   - "2.6"
   - "2.7"
   - "3.3"
+#  - "3.4"  # Not available on Travis yet, see https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/1989
 install:
   - "pip install -e . --use-mirrors"
   - "pip install pycrypto>=2.6 --use-mirrors"
@@ -11,6 +12,3 @@ install:
 script:
  - python --version
  - behave
-matrix:
-  allow_failures: # python 3 support for travis is shaky....
-    - python: 3.3

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Changelog
 
 ### 1.7 (December 22, 2013)
 
+* __1.7.19__ Creates full path to journal during installation if it doesn't exist yet
 * __1.7.18__ Small update to parsing regex
 * __1.7.17__ Fixes writing new lines between entries
 * __1.7.16__ Even more unicode fixes!

docs/advanced.rst

@@ -51,13 +51,23 @@ The configuration file is a simple JSON file with the following options and can
 DayOne Integration
 ------------------
 
-Using your DayOne journal instead of a flat text file is dead simple -- instead of pointing to a text file, change your ``.jrnl_config`` to point to your DayOne journal. This is a folder ending with ``.dayone``, and it's located at
+Using your DayOne journal instead of a flat text file is dead simple -- instead of pointing to a text file, change your ``.jrnl_config`` to point to your DayOne journal. This is a folder named something like ``Journal_dayone`` or ``Journal.dayone``, and it's located at
 
 * ``~/Library/Application Support/Day One/`` by default
 * ``~/Dropbox/Apps/Day One/`` if you're syncing with Dropbox and
 * ``~/Library/Mobile Documents/5U8NS4GX82~com~dayoneapp~dayone/Documents/`` if you're syncing with iCloud.
 
-Instead of all entries being in a single file, each entry will live in a separate `plist` file.
+Instead of all entries being in a single file, each entry will live in a separate `plist` file. So your ``.jrnl_config`` should look like this:
+
+.. code-block:: javascript
+
+    {
+      ...
+      "journals": {
+        "default": "~/journal.txt",
+        "dayone": "~/Library/Mobile Documents/5U8NS4GX82~com~dayoneapp~dayone/Documents/Journal_dayone"
+    }
+
 
 Multiple journal files
 ----------------------

jrnl/__init__.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ jrnl is a simple journal application for your command line.
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 __title__ = 'jrnl'
-__version__ = '1.7.18'
+__version__ = '1.7.19'
 __author__ = 'Manuel Ebert'
 __license__ = 'MIT License'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2013 - 2014 Manuel Ebert'

jrnl/install.py

@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ def install_jrnl(config_path='~/.jrnl_config'):
         password = None
         print("PyCrypto not found. To encrypt your journal, install the PyCrypto package from http://www.pycrypto.org or with 'pip install pycrypto' and run 'jrnl --encrypt'. For now, your journal will be stored in plain text.")
 
+    path = os.path.split(default_config['journals']['default'])[0]  # If the folder doesn't exist, create it
+    try:
+        os.makedirs(path)
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+
     open(default_config['journals']['default'], 'a').close()  # Touch to make sure it's there
 
     # Write config to ~/.jrnl_conf