Re: [h-e-w] Re: backward-kill-word in minibuffer

[andy . ling]

> My own electric commands look like the following piece of code.

>       (defun minibuffer-electric-tilde ()
>         (interactive)
>         (if (eq ?/ (preceding-char))
>             (delete-region (point-min) (point)))
>         (insert ?~))

If all you are trying to do is make the tilde behave as above
then I would first question why. As you can enter a new filename
starting with tilde without deleting the existing directory.

If you really want to delete the directory in the prompt it
may be worth trying to run the minibuffer-complete command
automatically after inserting the tilde.

You could also look at minibuffer-complete to see how that
deletes the prompt


HTH

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