Re: Zap-up-to-char in Emacs

[Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>]

Jiri Pejchal <xpejchal@nymfe33.fi.muni.cz> writes:

> function zap-to-char
>
> `M-z CHAR'
>      Kills through the next occurrence of CHAR (`zap-to-char'). 
>
> is there a function in Emacs similar to zap-up-to-char in XEmacs that 
> would kill up to and not including the next occurencce of CHAR?

Emacs (21) _has_ the function `zap-up-to-char' by default bound to the
same key as in XEmacs:

,----[ C-h k M-z ]
| M-z runs the command zap-to-char
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
| (zap-to-char ARG CHAR)
| 
| Kill up to and 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.
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