From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quick deleting from a comma separated list Date: 18 Dec 2003 13:01:13 +0100 Organization: [posted via Easynet Spain] Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n09qibcm.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071749983 1919 80.91.224.253 (18 Dec 2003 12:19:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 13:19:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWx7t-0000uv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:19:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWy38-0001Kq-Up for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:18:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=:ZS6bF10cmo>]fbUDQRReg0mDM\=e`Rhhm9FY3?HjZ5` Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119472 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15411 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15411 Urban Gabor writes: > Hi > > I have a question, is there an elegant and quick way to > delete an item from a comma separated list. > > Example: > > arg1,arg2,arg3 > ......> > > The cursor point is at the 'a' of the second argument. I > want to delete the arg2 and the separating comma. What is > solution if there are spaces after or before the comma? M-d C-d C-DEL If you were there: arg1,arg2,arg3 .....> You would skip the C-DEL. -- __Pascal_Bourguignon__ . * * . * .* . http://www.informatimago.com/ . * . .* There is no worse tyranny than to force * . . /\ ( . * a man to pay for what he does not . . / .\ . * . want merely because you think it .*. / * \ . . would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein . /* o \ . http://www.theadvocates.org/ * '''||''' . SCO Spam-magnet: postmaster@sco.com ******************