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I've been trying to figure out how to erase directories faster when I use find-file in vanilla Emacs. An example is Doom Emacs, you press backspace once, and erase the entire directory, but when I try to do the same thing on vanilla Emacs, I need to erase the entire directory name. How I can modify this behavior to make my Emacs file navigation faster?

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  • The question isn't clear. You seem to contrast a wished-for "erase the entire directory" with an existing need to "erase the entire directory". Please make clear the distinction you're trying to draw.
    – Drew
    Dec 11, 2021 at 22:10

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Does C-x DEL (C-x <backspace>) do what you want? That's bound by default to backward-kill-sentence, which generally deletes all or most of what's already in the minibuffer before point.

You can of course bind that command to another key. And you can do that in a minibuffer keymap, if you don't want to do it globally. Globally DEL (<backspace>) is bound by default to backward-delete-char-untabify.

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  • instead of erasing everything, I want to return one directory
    – EasterEgg
    Dec 12, 2021 at 0:23
  • ok, found it, just used backward-kill-word, thanks :D
    – EasterEgg
    Dec 12, 2021 at 0:30

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