• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Is there an emacs key to ‘delete this entire word’?

      like if I’m using ls to look for a file, then I want to cat a file, I press up to get the previous command, ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line and then spam d to delete letters. It’s be much better if there was a ‘delete until whitespace’ button.

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        7 hours ago

        M-d, aka alt+d

        Generally in emacs ctrl+whatever operates on characters, while alt+whatever operates on words. For example, you can do ctrl+f/b to go forward/backword a character, and alt+f/b to go forward/backward a word.