Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?

[Robert Thorpe]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

>> But, in keyboard macros it can be troublesome.  If M-y has to be used in
>> a macro that generally spells trouble.  Also, kills are slower than
>> deletes.  For those reasons I define delete-word in the obvious way,
>> like kill-word but using delete-region instead of kill-region.  I don't
>> bind it to a key though, I just use M-x when I need it, which is only
>> when using keyboard macros.
>
> This is what registers are good for!

I should have thought of that.

BR,
Robert Thorpe