From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Minor feature idea Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:10:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <54C183C7.2090403@yandex.ru> <87ppa5wr9p.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422061848 12657 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2015 01:10:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 24 02:10:48 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpFP-0002Ng-PP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:10:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpFO-000512-PU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:10:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpEz-0004ut-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpEy-0007LM-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpEy-0007LG-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEpEx-0001gE-EQ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:10:19 -0500 In-reply-to: <87ppa5wr9p.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:38:58 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181707 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. Indeed, that works. I had never thought of using that. C-a C-k would be more convenient and easier to remember. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.