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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?

Eh, there is plenty of safety equipment. Mainly undo-tree and magit.

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.

... and maybe even your hard drive