schwrtze@acf8.UUCP (E. Schwartz group) (12/11/85)
Heres an el hack I know you will like.... The doc. sez it all but basically it does what vi's delete to char does except this works forward and backwards on reg expers. A count implies a skip. If I have disobeyed el style and semantics, be charitable since this is my first hack ( please tell me though). I like to map it to ^Xt and then u get prompted for the string. Enjoy, Hedley Rainnie. (hedley@alaya) cmcl2!alaya!hedley ------ (define-key ctl-x-map "t" 'del-to) (defun del-to(arg) "deletes characters from dot upto|downto the character before|after the prompted Upto|Downto string. Provided of course the string exists. Undo will work for those deletes which go bezerk. Upto is the default Downto can be selected by a neg ARG. ARG specifies the number of matches that will be passed over." (interactive "P") (let ((x (dot))(aval)(y (read-string (if (< (prefix-numeric-value arg) 0) "Downto: " "Upto: ") ))) (setq aval (prefix-numeric-value arg)) (if (< (prefix-numeric-value arg) 0) (progn (re-search-backward y (dot-min) t (- aval)) (forward-char (length y))) (progn (re-search-forward y (dot-max) t aval) (forward-char (- 0 (length y))))) (delete-region x (dot))))