From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Allan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs keyboard command Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:42:24 -0700 Organization: NTT/VERIO Message-ID: References: <1153868272.150837.298300@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153874442 30227 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2006 00:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 02:40:31 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 1G5XRr-0004hM-BY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5XRq-0006tT-Rp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:40:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newspump.sol.net!newspeer1.asbnva01.us.to.verio.net!newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.emacs.xemacs User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kS9ibOlLmmQT742jCeqMKTglOSA= Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.215.80.224 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net Original-X-Trace: newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net 1153870951 150.215.80.224 (Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:42:31 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:42:31 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140601 comp.emacs:92652 comp.emacs.xemacs:80445 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:36227 Archived-At: "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- in my version of Emacs. I think that'll do what you want. -- -- Steve