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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 08:37:09 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5bfd95b-4a3e-44ca-9ad3-e2ff1d8e24b1@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dk2ta2Fla8fU1@mid.individual.net>

> I have also noticed that `delete-region` is not on any key.  This
> could mean that -- before Transient Mark Mode became default --
> `delete-region` was intentionally kept out of easy reach.  If this
> is the case, was it because the earliest Emacs versions lacked undo?

I don't think it was "intentionally kept out of easy reach" but
rather, as Stefan suggested, because interactively most people
want to kill text most of the time, instead of just deleting it.

It is trivial to define your own command `backward-kill-word'
and bind it to `M-<backspace>' or whatever.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-06 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-06 11:20 Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`? egarrulo
2016-03-06 11:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-06 11:37   ` egarrulo
2016-03-06 12:30     ` tomas
2016-03-06 13:12       ` Edward Knyshov
2016-03-06 13:16         ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-06 15:44     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-07  3:21       ` Robert Thorpe
2016-03-07 15:02         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-03-07 23:15           ` Robert Thorpe
     [not found]     ` <mailman.6881.1457279069.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-03-06 19:12       ` Barry Margolin
2016-03-06 14:31 ` egarrulo
2016-03-06 16:37   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-03-07  4:12 ` Yeechang Lee
2016-03-07  9:02   ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found] <mailman.6942.1457320905.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-03-07 12:08 ` egarrulo
2016-03-07 15:37   ` Marcin Borkowski

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