;; http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MoveLine (defun move-line (n) "Move the current line up or down by N lines." (interactive "p") (setq col (current-column)) (beginning-of-line) (setq start (point)) (end-of-line) (forward-char) (setq end (point)) (let ((line-text (delete-and-extract-region start end))) (forward-line n) (insert line-text) ;; restore point to original column in moved line (forward-line -1) (forward-char col))) (defun move-line-up (n) "Move the current line up by N lines." (interactive "p") (move-line (if (null n) -1 (- n)))) (defun move-line-down (n) "Move the current line down by N lines." (interactive "p") (move-line (if (null n) 1 n))) (global-set-key (kbd "M-p") 'move-line-up) (global-set-key (kbd "M-n") 'move-line-down) (message "Loaded move-line function") (provide 'move-line)