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To avoid side effects like moving the point (that is, the cursor), wrap your movement commands in save-excursion. Prior Emacs 25 this also saved the mark (the other end of the selected region). Now to save the mark as well use save-mark-and-excursion.
First we need a function to select the whole line:
(defun mark-whole-line ()
(beginning-of-line)
(set-...
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You want the whole-line-or-region package. With whole-line-or-region-local-mode activated, things like C-w and M-w Do The Right Thing on the current line when then is no active region.
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