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


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 08:37:09 -0800 (PST)

> I have also noticed that `delete-region` is not on any key.  This
> could mean that -- before Transient Mark Mode became default --
> `delete-region` was intentionally kept out of easy reach.  If this
> is the case, was it because the earliest Emacs versions lacked undo?

I don't think it was "intentionally kept out of easy reach" but
rather, as Stefan suggested, because interactively most people
want to kill text most of the time, instead of just deleting it.

It is trivial to define your own command `backward-kill-word'
and bind it to `M-<backspace>' or whatever.



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