easy-kill
Kill & Mark Things Easily in Emacs (by leoliu)
whole-line-or-region
In Emacs, operate on current line if no region is active (by purcell)
| easy-kill | whole-line-or-region | |
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| 5 | 3 | |
| 258 | 112 | |
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| 0.0 | 5.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 6 months ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
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easy-kill
Posts with mentions or reviews of easy-kill.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.
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The Year of Living evilly [impressions from 14 months with evil]
I've never used Kakoune, but can't you get similar functionality with zop-to-char and easy-kill.
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It's just me or is really weird that Emacs doesn't have something like the whole-line-or-region package built in?
How does this package compare to leoliu/easy-kill which I now see u/purcell also contributed to?
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Guide to building emacs extensions from beginner to advance [full video course] ?
Usually we publish our packages on MELPA (https://github.com/melpa/melpa). You could also publish on GNU ELPA (https://elpa.gnu.org/)
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Weekly Tipstricketc Thread
easy-kill allows you to do it by M-w C-a C-y
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Two Weeks Without Evil Mode
Also easy kill is great for this too if you don't like modal editing https://github.com/leoliu/easy-kill
whole-line-or-region
Posts with mentions or reviews of whole-line-or-region.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-12.
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I can't be the only one
I use whole-line-or-region for exactly this. If there's no active region then pressing M-w just copies the current line
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It's just me or is really weird that Emacs doesn't have something like the whole-line-or-region package built in?
I did try this package in september of last year. I liked it, but not as much as vanilla Emacs, so I stopped using it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing easy-kill and whole-line-or-region you can also consider the following projects:
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager [Moved to: https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad]
expand-region.el - Emacs extension to increase selected region by semantic units.
thing-edit - Copy and paste anything under cursor.
ryo-modal - Roll your own modal mode
meow - Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑
emacs.d - Personal Emacs configurations
melpa - Recipes and build machinery for the biggest Emacs package repo
objed - Navigate and edit text objects with Emacs. Development on pause.
super-save - Save Emacs buffers when they lose focus
zop-to-char - A visual zap-to-char command for emacs