Safer kill-line for org-mode

Safer kill-line for org-mode

[Piotr Zielinski]

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
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

Re: Safer kill-line for org-mode

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Piotr,

I do like that a lot.  An extension might be to even keep the tags in  
headlines.

- Carsten

On Jan 28, 2008, at 12:29 AM, Piotr Zielinski 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
> 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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Re: Safer kill-line for org-mode

[Detlef Steuer]

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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Re: Safer kill-line for org-mode

[Carsten Dominik]

I will have an extended version of this function in 5.20.

Thanks!

- Carsten

On Jan 28, 2008, at 12:29 AM, Piotr Zielinski 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
> 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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> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
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