RE: backward-delete-word?

["Bingham, Jay" <Jay.Bingham@hp.com>]

Timur,

Have you tried this:
C-Backspace C-y M-y

The yank-pop command (M-y) does this:
Replace just-yanked stretch of killed text with a different stretch.
This command is allowed only immediately after a `yank' or a `yank-pop'.
At such a time, the region contains a stretch of reinserted
previously-killed text.  `yank-pop' deletes that text and inserts in its
place a different stretch of killed text.

That description may be a little confusing because it doesent tell you
what different stretch of text is inserted.  Basically each time that
you hit M-y you get the previous entry in the kill ring.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Timur Aydin [mailto:timuraydin@superonline.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:37 PM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: backward-delete-word?

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!

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?

Emacs v21.2 on W2000.

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Timur
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