Re: kill-whole-line = always
it's just that a command to simply delete the entire line is far
more useful
than C-k = kill to end of line. It's especially useful in cutting blocks of
lines and moving them -- just kill-whole-line repeatedly until you get your
lines cut, then move and paste, voila!
When cutting a block of text like this an initial C-a is not too costly. I
use both kill to end of line and kill whole line a lot, and love the
C-k kill whole line when at beginning of line behaviour.
-- Rene