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bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality
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積丹尼 Dan Jacobson |
Subject: |
bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jun 2021 23:34:29 +0800 |
The kill-whole-line variable is great, but not great enough.
(info "(emacs) Killing by Lines") says:
If the variable ‘kill-whole-line’ is non-‘nil’, ‘C-k’ at the very
beginning of a line kills the entire line including the following
newline. This variable is normally ‘nil’.
So setting it to non-nil allows us to get newlines, 99% of the time.
I hereby propose an additional value, call it one of:
'always
'no-matter-what
'plus-newline-even-at-eof
'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality
> See (info "(emacs) Customize Save") for require-final-newline. Bye.
Wait! Who says I even want the file to end in a newline? I just want
kill-whole-line to have a setting to consistently get a newline at the
end, and not 99% of the time.
> Then add a newline there yourself and remove it when you are finished. Bye.
Wait! The file might even be a readonly file owned by someone else. I
can't just "add one there myself."
> Well then copy the file first. Bye.
Seems like overkill, just to kill (copy) one line.
Anyway 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality etc., being non-nil, would
also be 99% backwards compatible too!
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality,
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <=
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/06/24
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2021/06/24
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/06/24
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2021/06/24
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/24
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/06/24
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/24
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2021/06/24
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/25
- bug#49194: kill-whole-line 'plus-newline-even-if-none-in-reality, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/06/25