bug#56311: [PATCH] new function: delete-visited-file

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:

> 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".

And since deleting the visited file is currently very easy, as Eli
pointed out:

  M-x delete-file RET M-n RET

I don't think this would be a command that people would use a lot.

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