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

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.6881.1457279069.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > I should have been clearer, sorry.  `backward-kill-word` kills.  I wonder
> > why there is no corresponding command to delete instead.
> 
> Emacs's UI generally assumes that the difference between "delete" and
> "kill" is sufficiently minor that the trouble of providing both versions
> is higher than the gain.

If we had key bindings for all the "delete" operations, in addition to 
all the kills that we already have, it would take up lots of keys that 
are more useful for other things.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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