Re: find-file annoyance

[Miles Bader]

Katsumi Yamaoka <address@hidden> writes:
> name like "/frp.example.com:~/foo", and type C-a or C-b in order
> to correct the host name to "ftp.example.com", I cannot move the
> point to the place before "~" or ":".  Only <backspace> does it
> but I have to retype the whole host name.  In addition, I usually
> did `C-x C-f C-a C-k C-g' in order to copy the directory name of
> the dired buffer to the kill-ring.  Is there a way to make it
> behave like Emacs 22.1?

No idea what's actually going on, but this is clearly a bug (not just an
annoyance, though it's certainly an annoying bug :-).

-Miles

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