From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`? Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:44:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457279089 32656 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2016 15:44:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 15:44:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 16:44:41 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1acarH-0005Zk-RC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:44:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acarH-0004Q4-80 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:44:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acar5-0004Po-VE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:44:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acar0-0001gN-Tf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:44:27 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42354) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acar0-0001g9-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:44:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1acaqt-0005Pp-Ha for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:44:16 +0100 Original-Received: from 206-248-129-19.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.129.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:44:15 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-129-19.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:44:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-129-19.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4m4B4Q1sQ4S2BuO3690Vehs4V0E= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109476 Archived-At: > I should have been clearer, sorry. `backward-kill-word` kills. I wonder > why there is no corresponding command to delete instead. Emacs's UI generally assumes that the difference between "delete" and "kill" is sufficiently minor that the trouble of providing both versions is higher than the gain. IOW, use M-y (or a prefix arg to C-y) to get to the kill you care about. Stefan