Re: Deleting a word using keybinding

[Christopher Dimech]

   I have updated my function to kill words forward so that even if I am
   in the middle
   of a word that word will be killed. I also consider that if there are
   multiple spaces, I
   delete just the spaces spaces but not next word.

   I am finding a problem however when deleting part of a sentence by
   contiuing to press
   C--<delete> because when the point happens to be between two words, I
   end up with the
   two words  stuck together (the previous and thn forward), which deletes
   the two words
   when I hit C-<delete> again.

   (defun kill-spacword ()
      (interactive)
      (if (looking-at "[ \t\n]")
         (let ((p (point)))
            ( re-search-forward "[^ \t\n]" nil :no-error )
            ( backward-char )
            ( kill-region p (point) )
         )
         ( progn
            (backward-char)
            (if (looking-at "[ \t\n]")
               (kill-word 1)
               ( progn
                   (backward-word)
                   (kill-word 1)
               )
            )
         )
      )
   )





   Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 1:20 PM
   From: "Harald Jörg" <haj@posteo.de>
   To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>, "Help Gnu Emacs"
   <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
   Subject: Re: Deleting a word using keybinding
   On 10/15/20 12:26 PM, Christopher Dimech wrote:
   >
   > I am trying to delete a word using keybinding string "C-<tab>" but
   the
   > Chord is still showing as undefined.
   >
   > I would like to delete a word even if I happen to be in the middle of
   > it., so I move backward.
   >
   > Here is the function
   >
   > ( global-set-key (kbd "C-<tab>" )
   > ( lambda () (interactive)
   > ( (backward-word)
   > (kill-word 1)
   > )
   > )
   > )
   If I get rid of one pair of parens, it works for me.
   ( global-set-key (kbd "C-<tab>" )
   ( lambda () (interactive)
   (backward-word)
   (kill-word 1)
   )
   )
   With the extra parens in your code, I get 'Invalid function:
   (backward-word)'. Maybe this is why you don't see any effect?
   Also note that if your point happens to be on the first character of a
   word, this function deletes the _previous_ word.
   --
   Cheers,
   haj