Re: philosophical bugs in emacs

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From: Andy Norman
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 08:15

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>>>>> "Stephen" == gildea@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea) writes:

slehar> Line processing would be much facilitated if there were a real "delete
slehar> line" command that deleted the whole line including <CR> with a single
slehar> keystroke.

Stephen> Yes, I'm with you there.  I haven't used vi in years, but I still
Stephen> miss the "dd" command.

How about binding this to a key:

(defun kill-whole-line (lines)
  "Delete a line of text pointed to by the cursor."
  (interactive "p")
  (if (> lines 0) (progn (beginning-of-line) (kill-line lines) )))

					-- ange --

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From: ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Andy Norman)
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Subject: Re: philosophical bugs in emacs
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Date: 6 Sep 90 08:15:09 GMT
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