Re: Deleting a word using keybinding

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

   Dear Haj, correct, if I happen toi be at the beginning of a word, it
   deletes the previous word.
   I would like to have it kill forward, so I modified as follows

   ( global-set-key (kbd "H-<delete>" )
       ( lambda () (interactive)
           (forward-word)
           (kill-word 1)
           (message "**** Killing a word")

       )
   )

   A small remaining part to to kill the whole word even if I am in the
   middle of a word,
   because my code only deletes from the current point onwards.

   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