Re: Enhance word-based commands?

[Kai Großjohann]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> I'm working on a more flexible yank functionality where you can
> actually mark killed text as e.g. a word and have it inserted
> intelligently using a dedicated `yank-word' function (rather than a
> dumb insert).

Hey, cool!

However, I think just changing yanking is not enough, I think it would
also be useful to change killing.  Hm.  How to explain...  In C code,
it might be useful to kill "*var" as a unit, and this is not currently
possible with backwards killing:

a = *b + c;

(I have no idea if this is valid C code...)  Suppose you want to kill
"*b".  Using M-DEL won't do it.
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