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bug#56311: [PATCH] new function: delete-visited-file
From: |
Visuwesh |
Subject: |
bug#56311: [PATCH] new function: delete-visited-file |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:50:50 +0530 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
[வியாழன் ஜூன் 30, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Apart of that, I have no opinion about this proposal, although each
> time I see suggestions for features to kill unused buffers or see
> people who are worried about such buffers, I raise a brow: in Emacs,
> we generally don't care about that (because it does no harm to have
> unused buffers), and if someone's usage patterns are such that they
> tend to create _gobs_ of large buffers most of which quickly become
> unused, there's midnight.el to take care of that.
FWIW, the fact that Emacs leaves the buffer around has saved my back at
least twice,
. when I accidentally deleted the wrong files in dired due to
stale marks.
. when I tried to fix a broken symlink but got the argument order in
ln wrong and had the real file "zeroed".