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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Kashchenko <mkaschenko@me.com>
Cc: 21525@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21525: 24.5; A typo on 16.2 Transposing Text help page
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:08:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834mipow68.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <254B53DC-CD9B-44D5-A2AC-D774683828C5@me.com>

> From: Maxim Kashchenko <mkaschenko@me.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:01:27 +0700
> 
> Hello Emacs team,
> 
> Let me quote a paragraph from the manual page first.
> 
>    A numeric argument to a transpose command serves as a repeat count:
> it tells the transpose command to move the character (word, expression,
> line) before or containing point across several other characters (words,
> expressions, lines).  For example, ‘C-u 3 C-t’ moves the character
> before point forward across three other characters.  It would change
> ‘f★oobar’ into ‘oobf★ar’.  This is equivalent to repeating ‘C-t’ three
> times.  ‘C-u - 4 M-t’ moves the word before point backward across four
> words.  ‘C-u - C-M-t’ would cancel the effect of plain ‘C-M-t’.
> 
> I think ‘f★oobar’ becomes ‘foob★ar’ instead of ‘oobf★ar’.

No, the manual is correct.  I just tried it in the current git master.





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2015-09-20 12:01 bug#21525: 24.5; A typo on 16.2 Transposing Text help page Maxim Kashchenko
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