Re: kill-whole-line = always
FWIW, I use it as "kill to the end of the line" all the time. I do a large
amount of text editing and writing, as well as programming. When I want to
kill the entire line instead of to the end of the line, I just C-A before
C-K.
Just piping up because I don't see a lot of people stating that they use the
"kill to end of line" very much. I'm perfectly content with the behavior
being controlled by a variable, I'm also content with adding keybindings.
I'm not too keen on changing a current keybinding, but I'm not totally
opposed to the idea, I'll just have to teach my fingers to do things
differently.
-- Gary F.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Pluim" <rpluim(a)bigfoot.com>
To: "XEmacs beta list" <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:39 AM
Subject: Re: kill-whole-line = always
Ben Wing writes:
> i put this in, but it's always made me uncomfortable, and i just
realized
what i
> think is a much better idea. i'd like to get people's
opinions, and if
you
> think my suggestion is good, it should probably go into 21.4 to
avoid
releasing
> something we later want to take out.
>
> suggestion:
>
> -- remove kill-whole-line = always.
> -- C-k continues as "kill to end of line".
> -- define M-k as kill-whole-line.
> -- move the current, vastly underused, binding of M-k (kill-sentence)
to
> M-shift-k. this is still usable under tty's, as well.
I have kill-whole-line set to `t'. I just set it to `always' and had a
quick test. Conclusion: I realize that I almost always want to kill
the whole line anyway, not to the end => I'd probably end up swapping
M-k and C-k if you made this change, but I have no objection to it.
Robert
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