From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Zap-to-char behaviour Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 11:31:55 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87iss5ic7l.fsf@marant.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053531824 4306 80.91.224.249 (21 May 2003 15:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 15:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 21 17:43:43 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IVi4-0000s0-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 17:40:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19IVsu-0000Wp-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 17:52:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IVbP-0005q1-GC for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:34:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IVaO-0005QN-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:33:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IVZh-0004WP-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:32:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IVZM-0004Fc-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:31:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19IVZL-0005Pw-TX; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:31:55 -0400 Original-To: jmarant@nerim.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <87iss5ic7l.fsf@marant.org> (jmarant@nerim.net) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14046 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14046 Currently, zap-to-char deletes every character up to a given character and including the said character. Does this behaviour satisfy most people? It seems useful to me. It means you can repeat the command and it isn't a no-op. When I don't really want to delete that character, I just type it again.