From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`? Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 14:12:48 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457291737 26241 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2016 19:15:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 19:15:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 20:15:30 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 1ace9H-0000oq-1A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 20:15:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ace9G-0001lv-Bp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 14:15:26 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder2.usenet.farm!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="18538"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18gPuRaNnzFRuo2LF5fPM15" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TZlwy/cuTszrQ/s7R9j9p1iqH+Y= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217189 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:109482 Archived-At: In article , Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I should have been clearer, sorry. `backward-kill-word` kills. I wonder > > why there is no corresponding command to delete instead. > > Emacs's UI generally assumes that the difference between "delete" and > "kill" is sufficiently minor that the trouble of providing both versions > is higher than the gain. If we had key bindings for all the "delete" operations, in addition to all the kills that we already have, it would take up lots of keys that are more useful for other things. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***