Re: backward-delete-word function (not backward-kill-word)

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bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) wrote in message 
news:<yoijr7wihkrp.fsf@frealaf.dd.chalmers.se>...
> gg44060@mail.com writes:
> 
> > I tried defining it as a keyboard macro using delete-region, but of
> > course it doesn't work in the mini-buffer.
> 
> Of course it does.
> 
> ,----[ C-h v enable-recursive-minibuffers RET ]
> | enable-recursive-minibuffers's value is t
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | *Non-nil means to allow minibuffer commands while in the minibuffer.
> | This variable makes a difference whenever the minibuffer window is
> | active.
> | 
> | You can customize this variable.
> `----

Thanks!  You learn something new every day.  I had gotten around the
problem by binding delete-region to a C-c key.

Thanks again.