bug#24150: 25.1.50; New command: dired-create-empty-file

[Tino Calancha]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Leo Liu wrote:
> My experience seems to suggest this is not a frequent command/feature.
> In fact I can't remember ever wanting to create just an empty file in
> past weeks.
My experience is the opposite: i need to create empty files from
Dired quite often.  This reflects the fact that Emacs is a piece of 
software
with a wide range of different users with different needs.

> Historically people have been careful adding stuff to dired
> unless they are generally useful.
That's why the suggested command is added on dired-aux.el not in dired.el
;;; dired-aux.el --- less commonly used parts of dired

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