> On 9 May 2018, at 22:28, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> I do not understand what you have in mind with write-file. This creates a
>> copy, which is natural given the name. Do you envision some changes to it?
>
> Not sure what happened, but my first answer said:
>
> so maybe we could instead have `C-x C-w` prompt the user
> "delete the old file (y or n)?"
>
Is there a channel for demand driven development? like:
https://digitalocean.uservoice.com
I believe in the longer term it is better for the Emacs devotee to learn enough of Dired to `type R’ for renaming a file or use the shell command in that context `! mv ? delete-me’.