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


From: Edward Knyshov
Subject: Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 13:12:01 +0000

M-d

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 8:05 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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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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