From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`? Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:27:26 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457263819 6106 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2016 11:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 11:30:19 +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 12:30:18 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 1acWt7-0001tx-Uz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:30:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50035 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acWt7-00078r-AT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 06:30:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder2.usenet.farm!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5d24538dd9e8043c8794d6d600e8e13a"; logging-data="20076"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/vfnFgxAiPJd75fy+3x3h2H0rTcfl7xsY=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEUkIyb+/v4TEhRcW2A+ PULHyMsvLjIGBAaxXg9cAAACYElEQVQ4jWWTzW/iMBDFrUDN2WJzt1y2vhLssFeqmPS62WB6dSm4 V5Su6n9/Z8ZJ6aqWkJz5+b3nj4HFNkZGg8dpnJ1z7DzVWYzGGGtMYyyCGMNUj6++tr6ufQ8EDLCq RpSdxIEU2UopOYFLSaAlLyUVa0PO34uDIQWSxAswldmJwBkVoRhk4POTxHUXAJasGAv6GiArEHgR Ymmn8LTarVxgD7i1SogSMxyQxbBqV2vGpJTxTMAyByAuhtjO13yHh3GdEMIYdnZwWfraGLflbcEk J+CXoHCuefvw3tsA+2XcCRw9gf2Rw7LerRE0WC8NgaqcAViaHVwA22O9H4Gv8QuyJWMVRhgCTUW2 4oAK/gWYxwxKsytoU+CEoNne4SIPBTiW7UhAYDOnjw7A3ICi9A0Bs7knI6DHxroKnAg0Jozh4GzM DRjLc114B10CQIxgNxMT6UmRQcvk/AsgxcHBQ2HrULXLoIUMajhsnC7vygNwCFwGhXrBcgk3D07x ExSF/lkC8TWCFvZetqMiDR7qWwVHcjFcJhBCSrNK9ArGysWTerXw3qho3tLA66PSg7q2AfSKwPz0 HlKbBq0TDMYWKSmJwAW5KToNJCmdrgQU/KdY5IuZ7n4BGCyIGPwGxeOZ8Yfdu66etdL3ByjKEUDf yvDx9PisiugNemESgULBrPqx7y8edpyGG4DpgH3suz/glz6BAnDFzvClSirdgE46/cW36PpNLo/h cF51QYGvn1KOgKNnBQl832MAhUhU4KTD3vNPuPh/UEG71b/1d8Xe984WQ5rC2QTuehsXelw+Kv4B LT4KwsT5ticAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Cancel-Lock: sha1:OGhwQrih2Kr82s4T07h5paZDzHA= sha1:pA8ae00Nvu5x25JgtZRYl3Ocnn8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217169 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:109462 Archived-At: egarrulo writes: > I know how to define `backward-delete-word`, but if such a basic > command were deemed useful by power users, it would ship with Emacs by > now. M-DEL (translated from ) runs the command backward-kill-word (found in global-map), which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘simple.el’. It is bound to , M-DEL. (backward-kill-word ARG) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no