Re: Emacs keyboard command

[B. T. Raven]

"HASM" <not_really@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "mailpitches@email.com" <mailpitches@email.com> writes:
>
> > 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?
>
> Try M-BS.  A word, in Find File context is usually a dir, but now
always.
>
> -- HASM
>
>
> M-BS runs `backward-kill-word'

On some systems (e.g. w32) this key combo runs undo (as opposed to
advertised-undo) and C-<backspace> runs backward-kill-word.

>
> `backward-kill-word' is an interactive compiled Lisp function
>   -- loaded from "/builddir/build/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.19/lisp/simple.elc"
> (backward-kill-word &optional COUNT)
>
> Documentation:
> Kill characters backward until encountering the end of a word.
> With argument, do this that many times.