GNU bug report logs - #38392
zap-up-to-char should appear in "Deletion and Killing" Emacs info section and "Command Index"

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Message #8 received at 38392 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Justin Paston-Cooper <paston.cooper <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38392 <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: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 21:45:42 +0200

> From: Justin Paston-Cooper <paston.cooper <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:34:37 +0100
> 
> 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.

I see it in Command-Index.html and in Other-Kill-Commands.html, which
is a subsection of "Deletion and Killing".  Not sure why you didn't
see it there.

> Could documentation for this function be added to the Emacs manual?

It's already there, AFAICT.

Thanks.

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