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From: | egarrulo |
Subject: | Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`? |
Date: | Sun, 6 Mar 2016 12:37:24 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 |
On 06/03/16 12:27, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
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)
I should have been clearer, sorry. `backward-kill-word` kills. I wonder why there is no corresponding command to delete instead.
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