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Re: Suggestion: forward-delete-word

Hi Noam,

2018-09-24 20:29 GMT+02:00 Noam Barnea <thekittendev@xxxxxxxxx>:
> There are many widgets that go backwards and erase some amount of text:
> backward-delete-char, backward-delete-word, backward-kill-line, and
> backward-kill-word. But, there are no such widgets going forward. The
> forward direction only has movement by char or word but no erasure.
> That could be inconvenient as that's a whole direction of text that has no
> efficient solution for getting rid of text.

These gadgets actually do exist already, except they are called
delete-char, delete-word, kill-line, kill-word, etc.

I've been confused by the asymmetry in the names too. Historical
reasons, I guess… The names are the same in Emacs, by the way.

Best regards,

-- 
Jérémie
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