Emit an event when a post/page already exists, also.

Creation of new_post successfully emits an event, but no event is fired new_post fails because there is an existing post. This event can be used by plugins, for e.g. open the post in an editor or prompt to delete the post, etc.
getnikola · May 13, 2015 · d33a023 · d33a023 · ralsina · May 14, 2015
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diff --git a/nikola/plugins/command/new_post.py b/nikola/plugins/command/new_post.py
@@ -349,6 +349,13 @@ def _execute(self, options, args):
 
         if (not onefile and os.path.isfile(meta_path)) or \
                 os.path.isfile(txt_path):
+
+            # Emit an event when a post exists
+            event = dict(path=txt_path)
+            if not onefile:  # write metadata file
+                event['meta_path'] = meta_path
+            signal('existing_' + content_type).send(self, **event)
+
             LOGGER.error("The title already exists!")
             exit(8)