How fast remove selected text

Question

Emacs 26.1, Windows 10, package iedit

Suppose I want to delete text onMessage

I select this text by iedit-mode (C-;)

To remove selected text I press many times button Backspace

Nice. It's work.

But it slow. Is is possible to delete selected text faster?

Here result:

P.S. I found solution by kill-region

and after kill-region

Answer 1

Put point into one of the iedit-occurrences and press M-D (Meta key, shift key, and D key).

That key sequence runs the command iedit-delete-occurrences that deletes all occurrences selected by iedit.

Note that I tested this with the current git-version of iedit. But I found iedit-delete-occurrences even in the v0.9.9.9 tag. So it should work with all current versions of iedit.

Answer 2

After you selected all the words onMessage in your example using iedit-mode your point is usually at the beginning or at the end of the word(s) depending on how you call iedit-mode.

kill-word or backward-kill-word does what you want depending on where the point on the word is.

If the point is on the beginning of the word you can use kill-word to kill all the marked words. This is bound to <C-delete>

If the point is on the end of the word then you can use backward-kill-word to kill all the marked words. This is bound to <M-backspace> or M-DEL.