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From: lau@su-russell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Question on M-z
Message-ID: <243@su-russell.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 21:43:54 EST
Article-I.D.: su-russe.243
Posted: Sat Jan 24 21:43:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Jan-87 10:38:31 EST
References: <8701231858.AA21067@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Stanford University, CSLI
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Summary: Alternative to changing M-z

In article <8701231858.AA21067@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>, rms@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU.UUCP writes:
> One way to make M-z more useful is for it always to kill at least one
> character.  Thus, if the specified character occurs immediately after
> point, M-z would kill up to the following occurrence of the character.

Instead of changing M-z, one could define a new "repeat-zap" command which
does this.  Such a command exists in the HEATH library of TOPS-20 EMACS.

Garrett Lau
lau@su-russell