On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Joshua Kronengold wrote:
Actually, given WHAT // means, I'd just as soon pull it out --
it's
not much faster to type // as ^a^k (which does the same thing,
I disagree. I use it all the time, although I normally just hit one /, or
more often a ~ after an existing slash. I would be very upset if the
feature went away.
Not to mention that I've been bit by // more often than
I've
benifited from it -- as presently implemented, it's a single-keystroke
operation that can, in an instant, wipe out the last minute of hunting
around on the filesystem (even if it IS undoable).
You must be using XEmacs. Emacs won't erase the previous contents of the
minibuffer until you hit tab or return, which means you can just hit DEL
to get rid of an extra slash.