Re: backward-delete-word?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>]

In article <un0nckwrq.fsf@superonline.com>,
Timur Aydin  <timuraydin@superonline.com> 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!

Now type M-y and the string you just pasted is replaced by the previous
item on the kill ring, which is the one you really wanted.

>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?

What I usually do is paste first, and then delete.  I position the cursor
at the beginning of the word and type C-y M-d.

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