From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:28:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20171116152701930557471@bob.proulx.com> References: <20171115155650067497545@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510871338 10104 195.159.176.226 (16 Nov 2017 22:28:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:28:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 16 23:28:53 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eFSeS-0002H6-LP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:28:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43077 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFSeY-0005Ib-BF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:28:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFSe6-0005IF-Rt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:28:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFSe1-0003KY-Uk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:28:30 -0500 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:49976) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFSe1-0003Jq-Og for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:28:25 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30842D2 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:28:24 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E670217E5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:28:24 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 974882DC5C; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:28:24 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114911 Archived-At: Charles A. Roelli wrote: > I would just select the two words with the mouse (point and mark > anywhere in both words will do), then use M-t with a zero prefix > argument: > > A numeric argument of zero is assigned a special meaning (because > otherwise a command with a repeat count of zero would do nothing): to > transpose the character (word, expression, line) ending after point with > the one ending after the mark. I never knew about this functionalty before. Pretty cool! It is still a little more setup than it might be. But I can think of other cases where I might use this capability. Thanks for teaching me this cool feature! Bob