Function: kill-word

kill-word is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in simple.el.gz.

Signature

(kill-word ARG)

Documentation

Kill characters forward until encountering the end of a word.

With argument ARG, do this that many times.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 22.1.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/simple.el.gz
(defun kill-word (arg)
  "Kill characters forward until encountering the end of a word.
With argument ARG, do this that many times."
  (interactive "p")
  (kill-region (point) (progn (forward-word arg) (point))))