On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 1:56 AM Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > Since kill-whole-line kills both backward and forward from point, it > seems we should expect that the first part is prepended to previous > kill, whereas the second part is appended. Which is what the command > already does. > > WDYT? >
Since the current behavior is explicitly documented in the code, I suppose that settles it. I really can't imagine a good use case for it, though. But then again, until I filed this ticket, I didn't know that append-next-kill could sometimes prepend instead of append. It seems a small miracle that I've never stumbled across the prepending function by accident. Perhaps kill-whole-line does technically kill both forwards and backwards, but to me it's always been just a welcome shortcut for the classic Emacs idiom C-a C-k C-k. And the name kill-whole-line certainly implies to me that the line is killed as a single unit, not killed in two steps in opposite directions. If the current behavior is to stay, then I think it could stand to be called out explicitly in the documentation for kill-whole-line. Anyway! Although I'd prefer to see what I'd consider to be the more sensible behavior built into Emacs, I can achieve it on my own by just rebinding C-S-backspace to a command that moves to the beginning of the line before calling kill-whole-line.
