From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs keyboard command Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:10:45 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <7dff1$44e1e3af$49ede3d$12517@DIALUPUSA.NET> References: <1153868272.150837.298300@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155656440 24695 80.91.229.2 (15 Aug 2006 15:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 15 17:40:39 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 1GD11t-00049L-2u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GD11s-0001Gt-C8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.emacs.xemacs X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Trace: 7dff144e1e3afa13b7b9812517 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141072 comp.emacs:92757 comp.emacs.xemacs:80514 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:36697 Archived-At: "HASM" wrote in message news:m31wrjl9wj.fsf@127.0.0.1... > "mailpitches@email.com" writes: > > > 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 M-BS. A word, in Find File context is usually a dir, but now always. > > -- HASM > > > M-BS runs `backward-kill-word' On some systems (e.g. w32) this key combo runs undo (as opposed to advertised-undo) and C- runs backward-kill-word. > > `backward-kill-word' is an interactive compiled Lisp function > -- loaded from "/builddir/build/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.19/lisp/simple.elc" > (backward-kill-word &optional COUNT) > > Documentation: > Kill characters backward until encountering the end of a word. > With argument, do this that many times.