I think the BBEdit behavior makes sense if you're working with indented code.
It allows you to delete the indent without deleting the last word on the
previous line. BBEdit also has a different notion of which characters break
words. Try option-deleting through code like this in BBEdit and another app.
function(){
call();
}
[fletcher]
> On Jul 4, 2019, at 7:56 AM, 'Tom' via BBEdit Talk <bbedit@googlegroups.com>
> wrote:
>
> I was never really aware of that behavior. But that’s probably because
> usually I select (⇧⌥⇠) and then delete. (Maybe the behavior of BBEdit’s ⌥⌫ is
> the responsible for that habit ;) )
>
> I don’t see any advantage in BBEdit’s behavior. When I want to delete a space
> after a word I can just delete without Option.
>
>
> ATM the only thing that occurs to me, where BBEdit’s behavior makes sense, is
> when you have multiple spaces after a word, and you want to delete them all:
>
> awordA·····[<cursor]
>
> (The middle dots represent spaces)
> With BBEdit it takes one keystroke of ⌥⌫ to delete from the cursor position
> up to A.
> With TextEdit it takes 5 keystrokes of ⌫, since you can’t use ⌥⌫ here (it
> would delete also the word).
> If that is really the only point, then they should fix the behavior.
>
> – Tom
>
>
> On Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 1:20:32 PM UTC+2, Christopher Stone wrote:
> On 07/04/2019, at 06:03, 'Tom' via BBEdit Talk <bbe...@googlegroups.com <>>
> wrote:
>> I think, with “before a word” the OP means ‘before’ in direction of the
>> deletion (so, in reading direction it would be ‘after’).
>
>
> Hey Tom,
>
> Thanks. I missed that completely... :)
>
> I believe this is a long-standing behavior of BBEdit, so anyone wanting
> serious information about it should contact Bare Bones Software
> <sup...@barebones.com <>>
>
> It's not impossible that Rich or Patrick will weigh-in here, but it's quite
> likely that they won't.
>
> I don't see a preference or an Expert-preference that would affect this
> behavior.
>
>
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> Take Care,
> Chris
>
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