Re: Emacs keyboard command

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <1153913193.624448.11900@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
Tao Chen <chentao74@gmail.com> wrote:
>Perhaps ido.el is what you want?
>Its homepage: http://www.cua.dk/ido.html
>
>mailpitches@email.com wrote:
>> I'm looking for a specific keyboard command.
>>
>> When you hit C-X C-F to Find file, you are presented with a default
>> path such as ~/dir/blah. Is there a key command to travel backwards by
>> directory, so that I can press this key command and immediately get
>> ~dir/ without having to hit delete four times?
>> 
>> Thanks
>

Maybe you can say a few words about what ido.(el?) does,
a couple of plusses and minuses -- you seem to know something
about it.

Much easier to get it from you than trying to read doc or info
and then do a mental-diff on whatever it maybe-replaces.

Just a sentence or three.

Thanks!

David