;;; misc.el --- some nonstandard basic editing commands for Emacs
-;; Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1989, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
+;; 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Keywords: convenience
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
-;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
;;; Commentary:
(+ n (point)))))))
(insert string)))
+;; Variation of `zap-to-char'.
+
+(defun zap-up-to-char (arg char)
+ "Kill up to, but not 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.
+Ignores CHAR at point."
+ (interactive "p\ncZap up to char: ")
+ (let ((direction (if (>= arg 0) 1 -1)))
+ (kill-region (point)
+ (progn
+ (forward-char direction)
+ (unwind-protect
+ (search-forward (char-to-string char) nil nil arg)
+ (backward-char direction))
+ (point)))))
+
;; These were added with an eye to making possible a more CCA-compatible
;; command set; but that turned out not to be interesting.
(push-mark (point-max)))
(defun upcase-char (arg)
- "Uppercasify ARG chars starting from point. Point doesn't move"
+ "Uppercasify ARG chars starting from point. Point doesn't move."
(interactive "p")
(save-excursion
(upcase-region (point) (progn (forward-char arg) (point)))))