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When using emacs, C-S-Backspace seems to only delete one char and not the whole line.

After reading Here I see the text:

"C-S-backspace (kill-whole-line) kills a whole line including its newline, regardless of the position of point within the line. Note that many text terminals will prevent you from typing the key sequence C-S-backspace."

This might explain my problem, but does not give me a solution.

Checking topics like this gives some explanation to possible Ubuntu based issues, but they seem to be GUI based. I'm using the Awesome window manager with the default configs. I don't see anything bound to those keys.

I'm using Ubuntu with Awesome WM. My terminal is XTerm. I'm using emacs 24.3.1.

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  • It's probably not because it is bound to something else, it's because this key combination is translated into something else, like C-backspace maybe. I rebind it to C-backspace anyway since I use M-DEL to delete word, so I'm not losing anything.
    – wvxvw
    Sep 5, 2015 at 22:16
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    Type C-h k C-S-backspace to see if you are using kill-whole-line, that manual you linked is for latest stable Emacs version: 24.5, not 24.3.
    – xuchunyang
    Sep 6, 2015 at 1:32
  • It looks like when I rebind C-backspace to kill-whole-line it seems to still delete one char to the left. C-h k C-backspace is "It is bound to DEL.".
    – Mark Francis
    Sep 6, 2015 at 18:38

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