[OS X Emacs] ESC-Backspace doesn't put word in kill ring -- odd behavior? (Aquamacs 3.3 on OS 10.11.6)

[David Romano]

Thanks, David, I'll try that, which should be enough since I'm pretty sure
I just use the out-of-the-box configuration.

Thanks again,
David

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:34 AM, David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> David,
>
> This works for me.
> Perhaps you can try with an Aquamacs without customizations (Help ->
> Diagnose menu) and then find out what in your configuration causes this to
> fail.
> The function normally bound to M-Delete is essentially the same as other
> kill functions (kill-word, kill-region), so just M-Delete not working would
> be strange in itself.
>
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> > On Jul 25, 2017, at 12:44 AM, David Romano <dromano at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've been noticing some behavior that has been unexpected for me, so I'm
> wondering whether I tripped a configuration setting inadvertently, or
> something else is going on:  I'm used to expecting everything I delete --
> either through Ctrl-k, or other word or character deletion variants -- to
> be accessible afterward through Ctrl-y.  Now, however, I get a message
> saying the kill ring is empty, so the only way to recover the text is
> through an undo.  Is there a configuration setting change that could
> explain this, or might something be going wrong?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > David
> >
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