Reputation: 190859

select a line to move it with emacs

I like the TextMate that can select a line to move it with a simple keystroke.

Command-shift L (select a line) 
Control-Command Arrow(up and down) (move the selected line)

How can I do the same thing with emacs?

Upvotes: 6

Answers (5)

Reputation: 3755

bbatsov's prelude (a kind of Emacs starter kit) includes this functionality (see this section of code):

(defun prelude-move-line-up ()
  "Move the current line up."
  (interactive)
  (transpose-lines 1)
  (forward-line -2)
  (indent-according-to-mode))

and binds it to M-S-up and M-S-down.

Upvotes: 0

Reputation: 30258

SO user, Sanityinc developed move-text.el (an extract of from basic-edit-toolkit.el - by emakswiki regular, Andy Stewart (lazycat))

It does this task very nicely...

M-Up or M-Down to move the current line (or marked region's whole lines.)

Edit the bindings at the bottom to suit your preference.

Upvotes: 7

Reputation: 2850

The standard command C-x C-t is bound to transpose-lines. This is useful for transporting lines via interchange in a few ways.

The most obvious is that exchanges the line the point is in with the previous line.

With an argument of 0 (i.e. M-0 C-x C-t), it swaps the line that has the mark in it with the line that has the point in it.

Upvotes: 4

Reputation: 4115

move-line does that, except for the highlighting, which should be reasonably easy to add.

Upvotes: 4

Reputation: 386010

I just delete the line, then yank it back in the new location. C-a C-k C-k (move to new location) C-y

Upvotes: 6