From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs keyboard command Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <1153868272.150837.298300@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1153913193.624448.11900@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155433264 13615 80.91.229.2 (13 Aug 2006 01:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:41:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 13 03:41:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GC4yK-0002Sz-MB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:41:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GC4yK-0007DK-1k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:41:00 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.emacs.xemacs Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1155431060 8261 166.84.1.3 (13 Aug 2006 01:04:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:04:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141016 comp.emacs:92744 comp.emacs.xemacs:80506 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36641 Archived-At: In article <1153913193.624448.11900@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, Tao Chen 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