Re: backward-delete-word?

[Benjamin Lewis <bclewis@cs.sfu.ca>]

On 12 Dec 2002, Timur Aydin wrote:

> 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?

This may not be the ideal solution for you, but note that C-Backspace does
not "get rid of" the data that you copied, it merely pushes something on
top of it in the kill ring.  When you do a yank (C-y), the word you deleted
will indeed be inserted, but if you then do a yank-pop (M-y), it will be
replaced by the text you want.

-- 
Benjamin Lewis

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