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Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`? |
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Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:27:26 +0100 |
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egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
> I know how to define `backward-delete-word`, but if such a basic
> command were deemed useful by power users, it would ship with Emacs by
> now.
M-DEL (translated from <M-backspace>) runs the command
backward-kill-word (found in global-map), which is an interactive
compiled Lisp function in ‘simple.el’.
It is bound to <C-backspace>, M-DEL.
(backward-kill-word ARG)
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Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?, egarrulo, 2016/03/06