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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 20:13:39 +0300

> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>,
>         "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 17:05:12 +0000
> 
> > Right, the initial command just merges `backward-kill-word' and
> > `kill-region' into one.
> 
> `kill-region-or-backward-word', then.  And the
> open question then should be whether to bind that
> new command to C-w _by default_.  (My vote: no.)
> 
> If you like, just suggest to users, somewhere, to
> start using that binding.  See if its use becomes
> popular, THEN revisit the question here of giving
> it `kill-region's longstanding default binding.
> 
> Just one opinion.

Did you notice that this behavior is off by default?