backward-delete-word?

[Timur Aydin <timuraydin@superonline.com>]

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