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cleanup: remove ancient distnoted reaper script Surely this bug has been fixed in the 9+ years that the script has been run once a minute by cron on my laptop. To my surprise, it looks like the Migration Assistant even managed to carry it across laptops!
author Augie Fackler <raf@durin42.com>
date Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:12:16 -0500
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1 ;; emacs move-file function from http://zck.me/emacs-move-file
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3 (defun move-file (new-location)
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4 "Write this file to NEW-LOCATION, and delete the old one."
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5 (interactive (list (if buffer-file-name
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6 (read-file-name "Move file to: ")
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7 (read-file-name "Move file to: "
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8 default-directory
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9 (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-name))
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10 default-directory)))))
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11 (when (file-exists-p new-location)
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12 (delete-file new-location))
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13 (let ((old-location (buffer-file-name)))
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14 (write-file new-location t)
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15 (when (and old-location
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16 (file-exists-p new-location))
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17 (delete-file old-location))))