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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.

  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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