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[PATCH] Add 'kill-region-or-word' command

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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, philipk <at> posteo.net
Cc: 69097 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acorallo <at> gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, rms <at> gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#69097: [PATCH] Add 'kill-region-or-word' command
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 22:08:17 +0100

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Hello,

Thank you both for the feedback.  Attached is an updated version.

A few replies:

On Fri 06 Sep 2024 at 04:32pm GMT, Philip Kaludercic wrote:

> Won't there be an error here if the command is invoked with a negative
> argument?

Do you mean that you think there should be an error?
I don't see any need for that.

On Sat 07 Sep 2024 at 12:52pm +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I again ask whether we need this command.  It is okay to have a
> function (perhaps even an internal one) to move by Unix-words, but
> what are the use cases for such a command?

That's fine.  I've turned it back into a function.

> Should we also treat a backslash as delimiter, for MS-Windows?

Good idea.  That's more useful.

-- 
Sean Whitton

[v3-0001-New-commands-for-moving-and-killing-unix-words.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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