From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Timur Aydin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: backward-delete-word? Date: 12 Dec 2002 00:37:13 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039646731 31499 80.91.224.249 (11 Dec 2002 22:45:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MFYS-0007y8-00 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:42:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MFWq-0003WW-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:36:04 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: sv3-dEN318fkgZ8w3y7pHcqEy/X/mWNS8wk0lxFmJO2Kh0MkjF/HtUB/Xnx6CTverogwFkl36FJIQ4t233L!aZ5s7ccUqdEEAxBF7oTovZDDAJ5mlKT5biUAaRk7EmlWmQaek8YpJg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108015 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4546 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4546 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. -- Timur