From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`? Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:15:05 +0000 Message-ID: <87io0xdgna.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87k2le72mt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457392549 31714 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2016 23:15:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 23:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 00:15:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ad4N3-000423-7D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:15:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad4N2-0004vb-EU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad4Mq-0004vV-Tf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:15:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad4Mm-0005J4-RB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:15:12 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp09.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.14]:50473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad4Mm-0005IY-Lg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail03.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.16]) by outbound-smtp09.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F33A81C15F2 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2016 23:15:05 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: (qmail 10818 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2016 23:15:05 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[93.107.24.81]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 7 Mar 2016 23:15:05 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87k2le72mt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:02:02 +0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 46.22.139.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109510 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: >> But, in keyboard macros it can be troublesome. If M-y has to be used in >> a macro that generally spells trouble. Also, kills are slower than >> deletes. For those reasons I define delete-word in the obvious way, >> like kill-word but using delete-region instead of kill-region. I don't >> bind it to a key though, I just use M-x when I need it, which is only >> when using keyboard macros. > > This is what registers are good for! I should have thought of that. BR, Robert Thorpe