I'd like to have an option for deleting the original file during a file save operation. I added this via a call to delete_file inside save_file in saveload.e (SlickEdit Windows and Linux 2008 13.0.2.0). There's probably a better implementation, but this works for now. I'll have to read much more to learn how to add it to the Options menu.
The use case is for a file which is a Unix hard-linked file where I wish to break the link. The original source directory is hard-linked to the working directory. When modifying a file in the working directory I need to break the link before saving data. This allows fast patch generation without unnecessary storage utilization.
unpack source directory
cp -l to working directory
break links to modify files in working directory
diff -r source working > patch
