Re: Why does Emacs lack `backward-delete-word`?

[egarrulo]

On 06/03/16 12:27, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I know how to define `backward-delete-word`, but if such a basic
> > command were deemed useful by power users, it would ship with Emacs by
> > now.
>
> M-DEL (translated from <M-backspace>) runs the command
> backward-kill-word (found in global-map), which is an interactive
> compiled Lisp function in ‘simple.el’.
>
> It is bound to <C-backspace>, M-DEL.
>
> (backward-kill-word ARG)

I should have been clearer, sorry.  `backward-kill-word` kills.  I 
wonder why there is no corresponding command to delete instead.