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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com>,
	56311@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56311: [PATCH] new function: delete-visited-file
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:27:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wncybg4z.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wncyr7st.fsf@gmail.com> (Visuwesh's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:50:50 +0530")

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.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-30 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-30  4:26 bug#56311: [PATCH] new function: delete-visited-file Zachary Kanfer
2022-06-30  5:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-30  5:49   ` Sean Whitton
2022-06-30  5:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-30  6:20   ` Visuwesh
2022-06-30 10:27     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-06-30 16:29       ` Sean Whitton
2022-07-01  3:29         ` Zachary Kanfer
2022-07-01  5:57           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-03  5:06             ` Zachary Kanfer
2022-07-03  6:04               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-02 11:12                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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