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>   Currently, zap-to-char deletes every character up to
>   a given character and including the said character.
>   Does this behaviour satisfy most people?
> 
>   I personaly have rarely seen the need for removing
>   this last character: usually, I want to remove
>   characters up to a closing parenthesis or a semicolon
>   for instance.

I don`t personally use `zap-to-char', so I don't know whether
killing up to and including char is a better default.

In the sources the code to avoid zapping said char is commented out.
How about having a seperate `zap-up-to-char' command ?