Re: Minor feature idea

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > If you're fine with deleting the last segment instead, that's what `C-l' 
>   > in `helm-find-files' (a third-party package) does, as I've found out 
>   > recently. Seems (maybe more) useful.
>
> In fact, I usually do want to delete the last segment.

There is zap-to-char, which deletes backwards with a negative prefix
argument.  It will also remove the character to zap to, though, which
requires you to type it again when you want to stay in the same
directory.

Andreas.

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