Re: Emacs keyboard command

[Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

"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'.


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    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany