Re: hungry-delete

[Sam Steingold]

> * Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> [2011-04-04 20:54:45 +0200]:
>
> Am 04.04.2011 20:20, schrieb Sam Steingold:
>>> * Andreas Röhler<address@hidden>  [2011-04-04 19:19:52 +0200]:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-mode/+bug/328853
>>>
>>> "I really love the hungry-delete feature of Emacs'
>>> c-mode. It would be great to have hungry-delete for
>>> python-mode as well."
>>
>> DEL (translated from<backspace>) runs the command
>> backward-delete-char-untabify
>>
>> backward-delete-char-untabify-method is a variable defined in `simple.el'.
>> The method for untabifying when deleting backward.
>> Can be `untabify' -- turn a tab to many spaces, then delete one space;
>>         `hungry' -- delete all whitespace, both tabs and spaces;
>>         `all' -- delete all whitespace, including tabs, spaces and newlines;
>>         nil -- just delete one character.
>
> However don't think customizing DEL does it.
> In most cases you will use DEL as `untabify'.

wfm:

(custom-set-variables
 '(backward-delete-char-untabify-method 'all))
(define-key global-map [remap delete-backward-char]
  'backward-delete-char-untabify)

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