In post-command-hook, this-command for kill-word has turned into kill-region somehow

Question

In my post-command-hook callback, when I do kill-word, the this-command var is kill-region - and not kill-word as expected.

I guess that's because kill-word uses kill-region, but knowing exactly which command was used is essential to my script. Any way to get at that information somehow?

Thanks

Answer 1

Turns out all the kill-commands change this-command to kill-region so they can interoperate on appending things to the kill ring. To get to the actual command, emacs has this-original-command - which is not modified.