> In real emacs, and [...]

For what value of "real emacs"?  (You *do* mean the TECO macro package,
right?)

Certainly in the Gosling variant I use, delete-previous-word does not
put the deleted stuff in the killbuffer, ever - which is very useful
sometimes.

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