From: Detlef Steuer <steuer@unibwh.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Safer kill-line for org-mode
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:17:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128091707.7728f6b3@renner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3c12eb8d0801271529w74635486r40fc839a3ef89399@mail.gmail.com
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:29:50 +0000
"Piotr Zielinski" <piotr.zielinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Read this to avoid losing your work.
>
> Standard kill-line deletes all text from the point to the end of the
> _visible_ line. It happened to me a few times that I pressed C-k to
> delete a few final words of a headline, but instead the whole
> (invisible) subtree was deleted. This kind of mistake is costly
Yeah. Felt the pain this weekend! Looks like a great addition.
Thx
Detlef
> because it may go unnoticed for weeks, when you start wondering what
> happened to a sizeable part of your org file and have to go through
> rather old backups. Below is what I believe to be a safer version of
> kill-line: it deletes text only to the end of the real line, unless
> used at the beginning of the line, in which case it behaves as the
> standard kill-line. I haven't tested much yet, but it seems to be
> working ok.
>
> (defun kill-line-safe ()
> (interactive)
> (if (bolp)
> (kill-line)
> (kill-region (point) (point-at-eol))))
>
> (define-key global-map "\C-k" 'kill-line-safe)
>
> Piotr
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-28 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-27 23:29 Safer kill-line for org-mode Piotr Zielinski
2008-01-28 5:32 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-01-28 8:17 ` Detlef Steuer [this message]
2008-01-31 17:30 ` Carsten Dominik
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