Christian Nybø <chr(a)mediascience.no> writes:
>> A convenient way of killing is combined with searching: `M-z'
>> (`zap-to-char') reads a character and kills from point up to (but not
>> including) the next occurrence of that character in the buffer.
The manual is wrong (unfortunately). This behavior has always
irritated me, but here we are.
...
> What should zap-to-char do?
What it does.
> I wish changing the function rather than the doc was a viable option,
> as it seems more useful for interactive use if zapping up to, but not
> including, the character.
It's worked the way it does for a very long time. Perhaps we could
add `zap-up-to-char'? After all the Roman Numeral editor handles both
with `d f <char>' and `d t <char>'. I must admit to using the latter
far more often than the former.
