From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: Minor feature idea
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:38:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppa5wr9p.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1YEVAd-0005z6-9m@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:44:31 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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>
> > If you're fine with deleting the last segment instead, that's what `C-l'
> > in `helm-find-files' (a third-party package) does, as I've found out
> > recently. Seems (maybe more) useful.
>
> In fact, I usually do want to delete the last segment.
There is zap-to-char, which deletes backwards with a negative prefix
argument. It will also remove the character to zap to, though, which
requires you to type it again when you want to stay in the same
directory.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-23 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 22:09 Minor feature idea Richard Stallman
2015-01-22 22:56 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 23:07 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-23 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-23 3:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 9:37 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-23 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 16:41 ` Karl Fogel
2015-01-23 17:45 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-22 23:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-23 3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-23 13:38 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2015-01-24 1:10 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-25 6:45 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-26 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] <<E1YEPwm-0004PK-Aw@fencepost.gnu.org>
2015-01-22 22:42 ` Drew Adams
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