It's just me or is really weird that Emacs doesn't have something like the whole-line-or-region package built in?

• whole-line-or-region

  3 112 5.0 Emacs Lisp

  In Emacs, operate on current line if no region is active

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.

• thing-edit

  2 49 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Copy and paste anything under cursor.

However, if you find it handy, which you probably do, that is just a sign that you really need structure editing, but out of habit use lines. Besides paredit, thing-at-point is another thing to look at. It already has built-in regexes to give you a sentence, paragraph, email, sexp, and other stuff in a more structured manner than copying lines and then editing them (line too :)). There is a library, thing-edit that I once contributed too that does a lot of that stuff. I don't use it myself, haven't been using it for a few years now, but you may like it.

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• expand-region.el

  16 1,333 5.2 Emacs Lisp

  Emacs extension to increase selected region by semantic units.

True, that is why I stopped to use thing-edit. Currently I am using mostly expand-region, if I am not in elisp mode which I am nowadays mostly, and there I use sexps. With expand region I just tapp C-+/C--. Usually brings me from word to sentence in two taps on '+' and paragraph on third tap, and I can cut/copypaste. Works fine for me. In elisp mode I move/cu/copy by s-exps.

• easy-kill

  5 258 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Kill & Mark Things Easily in Emacs

How does this package compare to leoliu/easy-kill which I now see u/purcell also contributed to?

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