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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:27:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ziub6e3l.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dk2i3tFicekU1@mid.individual.net

egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> I know how to define `backward-delete-word`, but if such a basic
> command were deemed useful by power users, it would ship with Emacs by
> now.

M-DEL (translated from <M-backspace>) runs the command
backward-kill-word (found in global-map), which is an interactive
compiled Lisp function in ‘simple.el’.

It is bound to <C-backspace>, M-DEL.

(backward-kill-word ARG)

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-06 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-06 11:20 Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`? egarrulo
2016-03-06 11:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-03-06 11:37   ` egarrulo
2016-03-06 12:30     ` tomas
2016-03-06 13:12       ` Edward Knyshov
2016-03-06 13:16         ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-06 15:44     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-07  3:21       ` Robert Thorpe
2016-03-07 15:02         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-03-07 23:15           ` Robert Thorpe
     [not found]     ` <mailman.6881.1457279069.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-03-06 19:12       ` Barry Margolin
2016-03-06 14:31 ` egarrulo
2016-03-06 16:37   ` Drew Adams
2016-03-07  4:12 ` Yeechang Lee
2016-03-07  9:02   ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found] <mailman.6942.1457320905.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-03-07 12:08 ` egarrulo
2016-03-07 15:37   ` Marcin Borkowski

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