Subject: Re: bug#69097: [PATCH] Add 'kill-region-or-word' command

From: Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 16:54:57 +0000

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> > +(defcustom kill-word-if-no-region nil
>>> > +  "Non-nil means that `kill-region' without a region will kill the last word."
>>> > +  :type 'boolean
>>> > +  :group 'killing)
>>>
>>> What a strange thing.  `kill-region' is not related to word commands
>>> in no way.  Why not kill a sentence?  Why not kill a line?  Why just word?
>>> All existing commands handle an active region.  But there is no commands
>>> that do in the opposite direction where a general command handles
>>> one random specific case.  This is because the region is a more
>>> general concept.
>>
>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=69097#14 is supposed to
>> provide the rationale (consistency with what C-w does in a terminal,
>> which I presume means in Bash or similar programs which use
>> Readline?).
>
> So this is for Readline compatibility:
>
>   unix-word-rubout (C-w)
>     Kill the word behind point, using white space as a word boundary.
>     The killed text is saved on the kill-ring.
>
> Then I have no opinion, since 'backward-kill-word' (C-<backspace>, M-DEL).
> already does this just fine.

Right, the initial command just merges `backward-kill-word' and
`kill-region' into one.

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