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by kehrin 1051 days ago
> and your cat will break it by simply looking at your keyboard.

Being off by one column of keys on your keyboard can really be a death sentence to your buffer (and maybe even codebase).

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That would be your fault for not writing prompts for dangerous actions in your elisp automation though.
Most of the danger (for me) comes from evil-mode. Adding prompts wouldn't make sense there ;P
This sounds like running heavy machinery with no safety equipment. Is it really desirable to have a system that would behave this way?
The parent is just being ridiculous, Emacs of course has undo, auto-save and version control. And unlike in certain modal editors it's pretty hard to do any real damage without touching Control or Meta.
Eh, there is plenty of safety equipment. Mainly undo-tree and magit.
... and maybe even your hard drive