Software resembles archaeology a little bit more…

From: Richard Stallman 
Subject: Re: Various simple.el patches
To: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Date: Fri May 16 11:51:25 2003 +0800

    What do people think about a kill-whole-line function that does like
    C-a C-k C-k?  I think it might be useful.

I have nothing against adding such a function.  In fact, I think
we once had one somewhere.   There is no room to give it a key binding
by default.