RE: backward-delete-word?

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

Timur,

I feel your pain.
In similar circumstances I have stored text in a register and inserted
it into the buffer from the register.
Here are the register commands that I believe would interest you:
C-x r s <register-name> - copy region to register.
C-u C-x r s <register-name> - kill region to register.
C-x r a <register-name> - append copy of region to register.
C-u C-x r a <register-name> - kill region append to register.
C-x r i <register-name> - insert register contents into buffer.

Info describes registers as follows:
Each register has a name which is a single character.  A register can
store a piece of text, a rectangle, a position, a window configuration,
or a file name, but only one thing at any given time.  Whatever you
store in a register remains there until you store something else in that
register.  To see what a register R contains, use `M-x view-register'.

`M-x view-register <RET> R'

Single character means any character that you can enter from your
keyboard.  So A and a valid register names and specify two separate
registers, ~ is a valid register name, as is C-x.

Hope this helps,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Timur Aydin [mailto:tayd@bicom-inc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:24 AM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: backward-delete-word?

Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> writes:

> In article <un0nckwrq.fsf@superonline.com>,
> 
> >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...

--
Timur.

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