From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Addition to lisp/misc.el
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:05:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E19xv6T-0000ZT-A8@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pti72et9.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (message from Miles Bader on 12 Sep 2003 06:30:42 +0900)
> (defun zap-up-to-char (arg char)
> "Kill up to, but not including ARG'th occurrence of CHAR.
> Case is ignored if `case-fold-search' is non-nil in the current buffer.
> Goes backward if ARG is negative; error if CHAR not found.
> Ignores CHAR at point."
Why the `Ignores CHAR at point' anyway?
Because otherwise it would be a no-op when CHAR appear there; in
particular, repeating it would be useless.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-12 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-31 9:14 Addition to lisp/misc.el Jérôme Marant
2003-09-08 10:55 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-09-11 21:30 ` Miles Bader
2003-09-12 5:01 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-09-12 21:05 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-09-23 11:54 ` Jérôme Marant
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