Emacs/emacs/Hungry-Delete
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26.12.3 Hungry Delete Feature in C
If you want to delete an entire block of whitespace at point, you can use hungry deletion. This deletes all the contiguous whitespace either before point or after point in a single operation. Whitespace here includes tabs and newlines, but not comments or preprocessor commands.
- C-c C-DEL
C-c DEL Delete the entire block of whitespace preceding point (
c-hungry-delete-backwards
).- C-c C-d
C-c C-Delete
C-c Delete Delete the entire block of whitespace after point (
c-hungry-delete-forward
).
As an alternative to the above commands, you can enable hungry
delete mode. When this feature is enabled (indicated by ‘h
’
after a ‘/
’ in the mode line after the mode name), a single
DEL deletes all preceding whitespace, not just one space,
and a single C-d (but not plain Delete)
deletes all following whitespace.
- M-x c-toggle-hungry-state
Toggle the hungry-delete feature (
c-toggle-hungry-state
). With a prefix argument, this command turns the hungry-delete feature on if the argument is positive, and off if it is negative.
The variable c-hungry-delete-key
controls whether the
hungry-delete feature is enabled.