From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Subject: Re: backward-delete-word?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:01:51 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ztPJ9.30$NO.686@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: un0nckwrq.fsf@superonline.com
In article <un0nckwrq.fsf@superonline.com>,
Timur Aydin <timuraydin@superonline.com> wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I find myself quite often copying and then pasting something over an
>existing string. Because I want to keep my hands on the keyboard, I
>don't want to mark the string to be replaced with the mouse and the
>paste the correct string. I just do a C-Backspace and then paste. But,
>as you would guess, the C-Backspace gets rid of the data that I copied
>and if I paste, the string that I want to replace is pasted back!
Now type M-y and the string you just pasted is replaced by the previous
item on the kill ring, which is the one you really wanted.
>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.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-11 22:37 backward-delete-word? Timur Aydin
2002-12-11 22:45 ` backward-delete-word? David Kastrup
2002-12-11 22:50 ` backward-delete-word? Benjamin Lewis
2002-12-11 23:01 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2002-12-12 14:24 ` backward-delete-word? Timur Aydin
2002-12-12 15:49 ` backward-delete-word? David Kastrup
2002-12-12 15:55 ` backward-delete-word? Bernd Wolter
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2002-12-11 23:01 backward-delete-word? Bingham, Jay
2002-12-12 15:28 backward-delete-word? Bingham, Jay
[not found] <mailman.148.1039707361.19936.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-12-13 22:34 ` backward-delete-word? Joe Fineman
2002-12-13 23:02 ` backward-delete-word? Barry Margolin
2002-12-13 23:58 ` backward-delete-word? Kevin Rodgers
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