I can't live without backward-kill-word

I mean I can't live with it on C-<backspace> or M-<backspace>.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/.emacs b/.emacs
index 6a68b2a..fdb6b10 100644
--- a/.emacs
+++ b/.emacs
@@ -17,7 +17,13 @@
 
 ;; Key bindings
 
+;; C-h is a special snowflake in many situations; this is the most
+;; reliable way I found to consistently get C-h to do what DEL does.
 (define-key input-decode-map (kbd "C-h") (kbd "DEL"))
+;; Likewise, C-M-h (resp. M-h) gets re-bound by cc-mode
+;; (resp. markdown-mode, nxml-mode).  So this is the simplest way I
+;; know of to make sure C-M-h sticks as "backward-kill-word"
+(define-key input-decode-map (kbd "C-M-h") (kbd "M-DEL"))
 
 (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-b") 'ibuffer)
 
@@ -25,6 +31,7 @@
 
 (global-set-key (kbd "C-c c") 'compile)
 (global-set-key (kbd "C-c f") 'auto-fill-mode)
+(global-set-key (kbd "C-c h") 'mark-defun)
 (global-set-key (kbd "C-c m") 'man)
 (global-set-key (kbd "C-c p") 'electric-pair-mode)
 (global-set-key (kbd "C-c t") 'toggle-truncate-lines)
@@ -98,7 +105,9 @@
 
 (defun my/c-modes-hook ()
   (c-set-style "bsd")
-  (c-set-offset 'arglist-close 0))
+  (c-set-offset 'arglist-close 0)
+  ;; TODO: find why c-mode is not happy with mark-defun
+  (local-set-key (kbd "C-c h") 'c-mark-function))
 
 (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my/c-modes-hook)