From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: backward-delete-word? Date: 12 Dec 2002 16:49:33 +0100 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039708629 12598 80.91.224.249 (12 Dec 2002 15:57:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:57:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MVhz-0003Gx-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:57:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MVgS-0001tR-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:55:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.online.be!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1039708173 01 10189 SU2LE1fTSGA-H8 021212 15:49:33 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108038 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4569 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4569 Timur Aydin writes: > Barry Margolin writes: > > > In article , > > > > >C-Backspace invokes backward-kill-word. I guess the problem is the > > >"kill", which saves the data in the kill ring. I probably need a > > >"backward-delete-word". Does this thing exist or does it have to be > > >written? > > > > What I usually do is paste first, and then delete. I position the cursor > > at the beginning of the word and type C-y M-d. > > > > Yes, that works for one paste, but when I position to another string > that I want to paste over, the C-y now pastes the word that was > previously killed. Because the killed data goes to the kill-ring, > whenever I operate on a new word, I have to hit C-y M-y and the number > of M-y's is going to be one more than before. So, if I want to operate > on 4 strings, I will have to hit C-y M-y M-y M-y on the fourth > string... Ok, so instead of C-y M-y just use M-2 C-y since that will also rotate the kill ring so that after every deletion M-2 C-y again puts the old kill back on top. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum