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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Benno Dielmann wrote:
> On Friday 12 November 2004 11:03, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> | On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 02:38:30PM +0100, Benno Dielmann wrote:
> I'm using Suse linux 9.0, perhaps they've changed some defaults. In fact, in
> Emacs it's C-<backspace> while in XEmacs it's M-<backspace>.
>
> The problem is: In TeXmacs it is neither C-<backspace> nor M-<backspace>.
>
> It whould quite make me happy if I only knew WHAT the shortcut is in 
> TeXmacs.
> Doesn't anybody know? Or are you all deleting words letter-by-letter? ;-) Or
> not deleting words at all ;-)?

There is no specific keystroke for deleting words: we have a problem with
assigning short keystrokes to common operations, because there are much
more reasonable operations on structured text. But there will be some
careful thought about this issue at a certain point.

The best thing you can currently do is "C-space C-space" (select outmost
structure or current word) and then "backspace" or "delete".
Notice that "C-space C-space" is also useful for other things.
For instance, "C-space C-space F5" will emphasize the current word.