Re: Kill ring and backward-kill-word

[Stefan Reichör]

"Shug Boabby" <Shug.Boabby@gmail.com> writes:

>> Well, you know M-y don't you?
>
> yes, but that's a pain. it's a whole extra command to do something i do
> regularly.
>
> i never *ever* want to delete a single word and then wish to yank it
> somewhere else, so i want my setup to reflect this.

I just took the kill-word and the backward-kill-word functions and created
versions that call delete-region instead of kill-region.

(defun delete-word (arg)
  "Kill characters forward until encountering the end of a word.
With argument, do this that many times."
  (interactive "p")
  (delete-region (point) (progn (forward-word arg) (point))))

(defun backward-delete-word (arg)
  "Kill characters backward until encountering the end of a word.
With argument, do this that many times."
  (interactive "p")
  (delete-word (- arg)))


With backward-delete-word you can delete the word and you don't alter the 
kill-ring.


Stefan.