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

[Justin Paston-Cooper]

What about near, through and far?

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 17:04, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > What about having a class of inclusivity modifiers of the form `C-I
> > element` (I is isomorphic to set of inclusivities {before, through,
>                                                      ^^^^^^
> > after}),
>   ^^^^^
> > element is either RET for defining inclusivity alone, or a
> > `regexp RET` for including a certain pattern, similar to C-u, which
> > would pass an argument to things like C-f, C-b, C-s and do the
> > appropriate?
>
> Just a comment about "before" and "after":
>
> Those terms should be used only if the functionality
> really does proceed in a particular buffer direction.
>
> For example, the proposed Isearch commands I
> mentioned, which have names with "through", can
> work in either forward or backward direction, so
> in their case "after" or "before" would be wrong,
> for the command name.