If I have an org entry with a line containing only an org "file: link", if I C-space at the start of the line to set mark, down arrow or C-n and then kill-region with C-w I would expect the entire line and link text to be copied to the clipboard and the line deleted (transient mode enabled). As it is it only deletes part of the link syntax leaving a corrupted link - it seems to only kill the description part of the link object and its closing bracket, not its opening one.
Of course a workaround is C-k but I'm kind of hard coded to kill lines into the clipboard and I suspect the bug is probably larger than only links on a single line. regards r.