Function: c-electric-delete-forward

c-electric-delete-forward is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in cc-cmds.el.gz.

Signature

(c-electric-delete-forward ARG)

Documentation

Delete the following character or whitespace.

If c-hungry-delete-key is non-nil (indicated by "/h" on the mode line) then all following whitespace is consumed. If however a prefix argument is supplied, or c-hungry-delete-key is nil, or point is inside a literal then the function in the variable c-delete-function is called.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/cc-cmds.el.gz
(defun c-electric-delete-forward (arg)
  "Delete the following character or whitespace.
If `c-hungry-delete-key' is non-nil (indicated by \"/h\" on the mode
line) then all following whitespace is consumed.  If however a prefix
argument is supplied, or `c-hungry-delete-key' is nil, or point is
inside a literal then the function in the variable `c-delete-function'
is called."
  (interactive "*P")
  (c-with-string-fences
   (if
       (c-save-buffer-state ()
	 (or (not c-hungry-delete-key)
	     arg
	     (c-in-literal)))
       (funcall c-delete-function (prefix-numeric-value arg))
     (c-hungry-delete-forward))))