From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Zap-to-char behaviour Date: 21 May 2003 17:59:20 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87iss5ic7l.fsf@marant.org> Reply-To: dak@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053554353 18523 80.91.224.249 (21 May 2003 21:59:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 21:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 21 23:59:08 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 19Ibc4-0004oE-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 23:59:08 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ibn2-00049Q-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 00:10:28 +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 19IbSf-0004rp-PV for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 17:49:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19IbSI-0004qz-NX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 17:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Iajp-0003UU-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 17:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.19]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Iabj-0001jw-Sl; Wed, 21 May 2003 16:54:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd11.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19Iabh-0002jl-0A; Wed, 21 May 2003 22:54:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (520018396234-0001@[62.226.11.181]) by fwd11.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19IabW-2H775NC; Wed, 21 May 2003 22:54:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4LFxNje028900; Wed, 21 May 2003 18:00:03 +0200 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h4LFxMuF028896; Wed, 21 May 2003 17:59:22 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net Original-cc: 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:14063 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14063 Richard Stallman writes: > 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. Well, if that was the main rationale, it would be easy enough just to make sure that one deletes at least one character: namely ignore the immediately following character when finding the next one to zap to. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum