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Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?
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Robert Thorpe |
Subject: |
Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`? |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:15:05 +0000 |
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>> But, in keyboard macros it can be troublesome. If M-y has to be used in
>> a macro that generally spells trouble. Also, kills are slower than
>> deletes. For those reasons I define delete-word in the obvious way,
>> like kill-word but using delete-region instead of kill-region. I don't
>> bind it to a key though, I just use M-x when I need it, which is only
>> when using keyboard macros.
>
> This is what registers are good for!
I should have thought of that.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?, egarrulo, 2016/03/06
Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?, Yeechang Lee, 2016/03/07