From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yeechang Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`? Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 20:12:04 -0800 Organization: World Domination for Fun and Profit, Inc. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457335492 29912 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2016 07:24:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 07:24:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 08:24:52 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 1acpX1-0007sn-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:24:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54095 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acpX0-0006tf-KX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 02:24:42 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net Q5TkVbAJUIqBcaoriXGa+TpHIgNnLuz0YaNPA7gG5tqe6Bdzur30lr69bia5jeWHFq+MrrV6FXStJHmMbfdd9A== Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 04:12:12 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="x0D5vX2S7NWoart0mPCasdU32DWvs612xEJgVwm5lq67/Qzi2Ir3Z1X0BmvlnL3I+d+sNGizESsL749ohneybryyKe7v8LIp3sCnsg5zd9mhXYj1DR3FT+0+c5i1rDhj"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) X-OS-Name: Linux 2.6.18-408.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Tue Jan 19 10:06:59 EST 2016 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEUCAQH+ y62kj422qbTa1ddMSE6roq+soa+upLHXrZQrS3GqAAACSUlEQVQ4jW2UTY/T QAyGh0oFcXTLx+a2rWhLj9lh6XBEhPsSGKA3VAlt70jrucIIjY+bomqVf4vt SdOuYNT04Gf8+iN2DOIPR5aP41/AFAK6VUA0iEHt1kbnCAmRn4DEAIM9kCh2 pIQZYMw+/L9CNoYUEqpHcBk4SymhOqlHjByXn810ulUggho8yv3NleHjF+wU U1CpSGTdzHSntilYDOYGccsxersxn/kqByfiasL3o90Mt+QcmhA41M3VCTAL qYQ9KNKpgzFfuTNoHGcav90Dc0nZaPsEDJudCg5uF0GktOZLNjwGAMltMnpJ dM2AOvCAAex8DbDaSgwt+4LBBzicsVMgUq/vgygganQOO+hBQSRN1OiST9OT aHtwzulCsfMTgL2fzo8eXMig0N62ooo9+M3Bi2HbsnnQjDPQt3QhhQ1gCbPl uj57dATl3szMkNF0Vw+ePRQQMijMsD6HNUxHdTP6ooBkeJpi2cBtA0UNfjdT YCny1GgNT703a9jXUxkgflEqpRUvW74w4i4KSJHnzJVwbEiTgZP2RvsfEHU+ m39AtwMHraJt4R440QLQYYh5NezPE4DdlOh5c4wyxuyRxUoFbbtr4QyDTImN nFe0Zdtn9Zw3I0tJKWXRa93xjsmI8hZHRyUcXDTbpOmqB/QusrQMEkm20q22 6bMNidueZ3ECB/KHI7BUV8bsVdenu7QVJTKkPfzlX7zNOpf1NWcbuv3YeP+p UlK9957XgD8ZuuJeQFXBk0qAn5MLprP7jwyqdxn4uY1/AWt+KyqqZJOjAAAA AElFTkSuQmCC X-Face: VTl_eUAc}lH5aV=[Pzqv-VkHQ=8?sg:^`Kt'Alu7X"6{&"$<{|$+?|h^; P>Q!_0SqsbwE f1oh`CbeLk]\|s&%Mw7Q`f.dSs:%_c3b[$7f:^R]*d*Ah+0)jRWNN; Bm#reP\|o$P<6BdM.`UR.h2 qHb{l>O6+~ZI}iDH, <2@GO=6fnwH3"F@"(T-$lVz`u0!xJzUxl%:M0GW"8XZ'Y%3CHOu@cqnbY&iW "hX18=$49F!&n<^FqGd 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:109489 Archived-At: egarrulo wrote: > 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. I sometimes wonder if Emacs users have so many commands they defined long ago in ~/.emacs that they don't realize that they might be useful for others in the stock code. Example: I only realized/remembered the other day that my ~/.emacs has (global-set-key (kbd "C-x p") 'previous-multiframe-window) (global-set-key (kbd "C-x n") 'next-multiframe-window) I almost certainly put it in almost immediately after starting with Emacs more than two decades ago. Certainly, for the vast majority of those two decades, I would have sworn that being able to move to the next and previous window (as opposed to 'other-window, which is stock on C-x o) is bound to keys by default. -- geo:37.783333,-122.416667