From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
Subject: Re: Emacs keyboard command
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:04:20 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebltqk$825$1@reader2.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1153913193.624448.11900@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com
In article <1153913193.624448.11900@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
Tao Chen <chentao74@gmail.com> wrote:
>Perhaps ido.el is what you want?
>Its homepage: http://www.cua.dk/ido.html
>
>mailpitches@email.com wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> Thanks
>
Maybe you can say a few words about what ido.(el?) does,
a couple of plusses and minuses -- you seem to know something
about it.
Much easier to get it from you than trying to read doc or info
and then do a mental-diff on whatever it maybe-replaces.
Just a sentence or three.
Thanks!
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-13 1:04 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
2006-07-28 5:29 ` Le
2006-07-26 11:26 ` Tao Chen
2006-08-13 1:04 ` David Combs [this message]
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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