From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs keyboard command
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:00:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzawykgb.fsf@hans.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c08ed$44c6bf2e$49ede5e$623@DIALUPUSA.NET> (B. T. Raven's message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:58:24 -0500")
"B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com> writes:
> "Steve Allan" <takezowest@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:upsft45gf.fsf@attachmate.com...
>> "mailpitches@email.com" <mailpitches@email.com> writes:
>>
>> >I'm looking for a specific keyboard command.
>> >
>> >When you hit C-X C-F to Find file, you are presented with a default
>> >path such as ~/dir/blah. Is there a key command to travel backwards by
>> >directory, so that I can press this key command and immediately get
>> >~dir/ without having to hit delete four times?
>>
>> Try backward-kill-word, which is bound to M-<backspace> in my version
>> of Emacs. I think that'll do what you want.
>
> C-<backspace> if Backspace is Del. Also hold Ctl down while typing a-k
> will delete everything back to the read-only prompt.
It's not necessary to kill the whole line just type immediately behind the
presented path `~/dir' (without the accents) and Emacs disregards the
first, wrong part and starts with `~/dir'.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-26 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-25 22:57 Emacs keyboard command mailpitches
2006-07-25 23:42 ` Steve Allan
2006-07-26 0:58 ` B. T. Raven
2006-07-26 6:00 ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2006-07-28 5:29 ` Le
2006-07-26 11:26 ` Tao Chen
2006-08-13 1:04 ` David Combs
2006-08-14 13:33 ` HASM
2006-08-15 15:10 ` B. T. Raven
2006-08-15 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-15 20:39 ` HASM
[not found] ` <mailman.5195.1155670786.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-17 23:42 ` B. T. Raven
2006-08-18 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.5313.1155897936.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-18 15:05 ` B. T. Raven
2006-08-18 15:49 ` Drew Adams
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