Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?

[tomas]

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On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 12:37:24PM +0100, egarrulo wrote:
> 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.

Is there any `forward-delete-word'?

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