When I delete a file, I almost always want the buffer visiting it to go away also. Why keep it around? So I have to do the following steps: 1. M-x delete-file 2. navigate to the file, select it. 3. C-x k So I wrote a function to delete the file a buffer is visiting, and close the buffer. Now I do everything in a single logical action: 1. M-x delete-visited-file 2. select the buffer. Patch is attached.