Efficent way to copy and paste a line

Question

To copy and paste a line i use the following method

C-a - beginning of line

#save the line to kill-ring using kill-line(this is faster than marking,
# move to end of line and C-w)
C-k - kill-line
C-/ - undo kill-line 

# move point to required line
C-p or C-n or C-s (search for the nearest line where the paste must be done)

C-y # paste the line

Is there more efficent method than this. In vim just type yy, navigate and p does the job

With evil-mode, just use the default vim keybindings. http://wikemacs.org/index.php/Evil — Ehvince, Nov 25 '14 at 15:04
@ceejayoz I would say it's more of an emacs.stackexchange question — Squidly, Nov 25 '14 at 15:12

choroba · Answer 1 · 2014-11-25T15:16:36.747

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Use kill-whole-line instead of C-aC-k. It's mapped to C-S-backspace by default.

edited Nov 25 '14 at 15:16

answered Nov 25 '14 at 14:24

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According to emacs -Q, `kill-whole-line` is defaultly bound to `C-S-backspace` – Squidly Nov 25 '14 at 15:14
@MrBones: Thanks for confirmation. – choroba Nov 25 '14 at 15:16

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 25 '14 at 15:07

With evil-mode, just use the default vim keybindings.http://wikemacs.org/index.php/Evil

Otherwise, M-w (kill-ring-save) saves the region. If we want to copy the current line if no region is selected:

(put 'kill-ring-save 'interactive-form
 '(interactive
   (if (use-region-p)
       (list (region-beginning) (region-end))
     (list (line-beginning-position) (line-beginning-position 2)))))
(put 'kill-region 'interactive-form
 '(interactive
   (if (use-region-p)
       (list (region-beginning) (region-end))
     (list (line-beginning-position) (line-beginning-position 2)))))

Efficent way to copy and paste a line

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