From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Minor feature idea Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:38:58 +0100 Message-ID: <87ppa5wr9p.fsf@igel.home> References: <54C183C7.2090403@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422020408 23743 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2015 13:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 14:40:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeT1-0005SH-B4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:40:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59009 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeT0-0005kT-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeS4-0004me-6v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:39:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeRz-0005yR-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:39:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1]:47085) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEeRz-0005y7-8B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3kTM500T8Cz3hjlQ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:38:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3kTM4z5BqDzvh2Z; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:38:59 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UQwyvKcUKfo1; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:38:58 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: tZdAyxVpUkrnsrAElGJh1liTAcotnD1Tbs/IGG0lFZzJeT81g6Qmsd43jNonykrS Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-188-174-8-120.dynamic.mnet-online.de [188.174.8.120]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:38:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 336E92C336E; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:38:58 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Hey, wait a minute!! I want a divorce!!.. you're not Clint Eastwood!! In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:44:31 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181673 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."