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[Terran Lane] meta-delete has wrong default binding; should be "kill-word"

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Message #10 received at 1775 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 1775 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1775: [Terran Lane] meta-delete has wrong default binding;
 should be "kill-word"
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:37:31 +0200

Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Another old bug in Debian's BTS.  While the report is not too informing,
> I wonder why M-delete is not bound to kill-word:
>
> ,---- C-h k M-delete
> | M-DEL (translated from <M-delete>) runs the command
> | backward-kill-word, which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> | `simple.el'.
> | 
> | It is bound to <C-backspace>, M-DEL.
> `----
>
> ,---- C-h w kill-word
> | kill-word is on <C-delete>, M-d
> `----
>
> Would it not be consistent to bind M-delete to kill-word?

It might be a bit more consistent, but Emacs has had this key binding
since forever, and we can't change the behaviour of basic keys like
that.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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