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zap-up-to-char should appear in "Deletion and Killing" Emacs info section and "Command Index"

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Justin Paston-Cooper <paston.cooper <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#38392: closed (Re: bug#38392: zap-up-to-char should appear in
 "Deletion and Killing" Emacs info section and "Command Index")
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 10:20:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#38392: zap-up-to-char should appear in "Deletion and Killing" Emacs info section and "Command Index"

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 38392-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38392: zap-up-to-char should appear in "Deletion and Killing"
 Emacs info section and "Command Index"
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 12:19:15 +0200

> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 13:45:20 +1300
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
> 
> Eli wrote:
> > I'm not sure we should have it in the manual.  The fact that you
> > wanted it doesn't yet mean it's useful enough to have in the manual.
> > 
> > Does anyone else have an opinion?
> 
> Mentioning only one of the two commands just seems arbitrary,
> so I think it should be either "both" or "neither" for the sake
> of consistency.
> 
> I think the manual should mention both of them, and that their
> docstrings should probably mention one another as well, so that
> users can learn about these alternatives more easily.

Thanks, done (I only added the reference to the doc string of
zap-to-char, though).

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From: Justin Paston-Cooper <paston.cooper <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: zap-up-to-char should appear in "Deletion and Killing" Emacs info
 section and "Command Index"
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:34:37 +0100

Hello,

According to the documentation, zap-up-to-char allows one to kill up
to, but not including ARGth occurrence of CHAR. No reference is made
to zap-up-to-char in
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Killing.html
or https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Command-Index.html.

It isn't immediately apparent from the documentation on zap-to-char in
the above sections, and also from the source of zap-to-char, that
there exists a way of zapping up to a char without writing this code
manually. I couldn't find any combination of keys, either, to press
after pressing M-z which would result in the same functionality.

It took me quite a while to come across zap-up-to-char. Could
documentation for this function be added to the Emacs manual?

Kind regards,

Justin

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