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Elan
Elan

Reputation: 443

How to bind Emacs key for delete whole word backword as the same in a shell?

I have just started learning Linux and Emacs. It was pleasant to have the same key bindings in both Emacs and a shell (bash/tcsh) for the most frequently used cursor movements, so that I do not have to consciously think which one I have to use. Still worse, use the wrong command and undo the mistake. There were two exceptions, though.

One often used command was the equivalent of backspace, delete a character backwards. In a shell, it was C-h. I got the same behaviour in Emacs, thanks to this tip from Janos, who probably felt the same way. http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~komlos/emacs.htm

Now the mistake I do often in Emacs is trying to delete words backwards with the command M-C-h, as in a shell.

Can somebody please give a binding that will make Emacs delete words backwards with 'M-C-h'? Currently, this command selects the whole of the text in a buffer, which is quite an useful thing (C-a in windows), but not so frequently used as deleting words backwards.

Moreover, any binding to replace the current binding of M-h (from the link above) to help will be appreciated.

Thank you,

Elan.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2417

Answers (3)

Dillon Kearns
Dillon Kearns

Reputation: 3755

It's best to use key translation so C-M-h works exactly the same as M-backspace would in any minor mode (regardless of whether M-backspace is bound to backward-kill-word or not).

;; bind C-h to <backspace>
(define-key key-translation-map [?\C-h] [?\C-?])
;; bind C-M-h to M-<backspace>
(define-key key-translation-map [?\C-\M-h] [?\C-\M-?])

Upvotes: 1

Nicolas Dudebout
Nicolas Dudebout

Reputation: 9262

You can use M-<backspace> in terminal and emacs to delete word backward.

Upvotes: 3

kes
kes

Reputation: 358

Below binds C-M h to backward-kill-word. You can put it in your .emacs file. 

(global-set-key (kbd "C-M-h") 'backward-kill-word)

Upvotes: 4

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