Kill Things Easily in Emacs

Provide commands (easy-kill, easy-mark etc.) to let users kill or mark things easily.

easy-kill

easy-kill is a drop-in replacement for kill-ring-save. It saves something to kill-ring in this order:

1. current region if active
2. url at point (snarf char properties help-echo, shr-url, w3m-href-anchor etc.)
3. email at point
4. current line

Immediately following easy-kill, the follow keys are temporarily active:

1. w -> word at point
2. s -> sexp at point
3. f -> file at point
4. l -> list at point
5. d -> defun at point
6. D -> defun-name; works even when in a diff hunk
7. b -> buffer-file-name or default-directory
8. @ -> append selection to previous kill
9. C-w -> kill selection
10. +, - and 0..9 -> expand/shrink selection
11. C-SPC -> turn selection into an active region
12. C-g -> abort

Any other keys exit the temporary keymap and automatically save selection to the kill-ring. See M-w l (save list at point to the kill ring) in action in screenshot:

easy-mark

easy-mark is similar to easy-kill but marks the region immediately.

easy-mark-sexp can be a handy replacement for mark-sexp, which allows +,=/- to do list-wise expanding/shrinking and marks the whole sexp even when in the middle of one.

To Use

easy-kill is available on MELPA.

(require 'easy-kill)
(global-set-key [remap kill-ring-save] 'easy-kill)
(global-set-key [remap mark-sexp] 'easy-mark-sexp)

Extensions

New things can be defined by following package thingatpt.el's convention, or by defining new functions named like easy-kill-on-THING-NAME. See easy-kill-on-buffer-file-name and easy-kill-on-url for examples.

Bugs

https://github.com/leoliu/easy-kill/issues