From: "Jérémie Roquet" <jroquet@arkanosis.net>
To: Noam Barnea <thekittendev@gmail.com>
Cc: "Zsh Hackers' List" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: forward-delete-word
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:59:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFOazANYGEC4k5G4Aoy2CDzmW3RV1G4T9KOJisFSv+1_ACDgWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPqKCVW6JqPPNjyeLg48Jt_AUbVGqspYSO0Jrymb8rPXRm6hjA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Noam,
2018-09-24 20:29 GMT+02:00 Noam Barnea <thekittendev@gmail.com>:
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-24 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-24 18:29 Noam Barnea
2018-09-24 18:59 ` Jérémie Roquet [this message]
2018-09-26 5:32 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-09-26 14:55 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-09-26 15:05 ` Mikael Magnusson
2018-09-26 15:12 ` Daniel Shahaf
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