From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthew Flaschen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete (kill) entire line at cursor - how? Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:05:43 -0500 Message-ID: <45EDF3C7.5020205@gatech.edu> References: <1173165762.936371.202290@q40g2000cwq.googlegroups.com> <1173200295.212027.291640@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173222377 7126 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2007 23:06:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 23:06:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 07 00:06:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HOijI-0004ca-FN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:06:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOijJ-000637-SX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:06:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HOij8-00062s-I7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HOij5-00062U-6f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:05:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOij5-00062R-0F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:05:47 -0500 Original-Received: from deliverator5.gatech.edu ([130.207.165.165]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HOij2-0001A7-Ql for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:05:44 -0500 Original-Received: from deliverator5.gatech.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id A8CB11D1986 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:05:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) Original-Received: from mailprx3.gatech.edu (mailprx3.prism.gatech.edu [130.207.171.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.mail.gatech.edu", Issuer "RSA Data Security, Inc." (verified OK)) by deliverator5.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA101D1994 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:05:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) Original-Received: from [128.61.73.81] (r73h81.res.gatech.edu [128.61.73.81]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (sasl: method=PLAIN, username=mflaschen3@mailprx3.gatech.edu, sender=n/a) by mailprx3.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E462172 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:05:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070104) In-Reply-To: <1173200295.212027.291640@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41738 Archived-At: cmr.Pent@gmail.com wrote: >> I just made the below hack. Add it to your ~/.emacs file. Then, restart >> emacs and, C-x y will do what you ask (I think). There's probably a >> better way to do it: >> >> Matt Flaschen >> >> (defun kill-entire-line () >> "Kills the whole line, including terminating newline, and moves the >> cursor directly down" >> (interactive) >> (next-line 1) >> (save-excursion >> (previous-line 1) >> (beginning-of-line) >> (kill-line 1))) >> >> (global-set-key [?\C-x ?y] 'kill-entire-line) > > Just checked it, works like a champ! Thanks. Sure. :) > And I use stable version (21.4 that is), so the `kill-whole-line' > command is unavailable to me. Same. I chose the name kill-entire-line because I did notice a kill-whole-line variable (which still doesn't allow the kill-entire-line behavior); it's good because there aren't conflicts on upgrade. > Maybe it does exactly what Matt suggested ;-) Quite possibly. That seems to happen a fair amount... Matt Flaschen