From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:57:18 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ec7af50-26c3-4a03-8fcd-d389a492db02@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3897.1510936953.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 10:12:36 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Stefan Monnier
> > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:03:37 -0500
> >
> > > C-u 0 M-t works fine.
> >
> > BTW, I'd argue that C-u M-t should work as well: currently it is treated
> > like C-u 4 M-t, but I think it's a poor choice.
>
> Really? That a lone C-u means an arg of 4 is burnt into our muscle
> memory for decades. Compare with "C-u C-n". A command that receives
> a numerical argument normally treats all of its arguments as numbers.
> Breaking that in a single command sounds like a misfeature.
Org mode (at least) is full of functions for which C-u means change some behavior (C-u C-u changes more) and has nothing to do with some magic number 4
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2017-11-16 7:04 ` Transposing words over middle words Loris Bennett
2017-11-16 8:41 ` Joost Kremers
2017-11-16 8:47 ` Joost Kremers
2017-11-16 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-16 22:26 ` Bob Proulx
2017-11-17 5:00 ` Yuri Khan
2017-11-17 5:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-17 8:55 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2017-11-17 8:58 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2017-11-17 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 9:35 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2017-11-17 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-17 16:19 ` Robert Pluim
2017-11-17 20:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-11-17 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 22:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-17 23:02 ` Emanuel Berg
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2017-11-17 16:57 ` Rusi [this message]
2017-11-17 17:26 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-17 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 22:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-17 23:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-21 17:21 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-11-22 18:18 ` Arnaldo Mandel
2017-11-22 19:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-22 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-17 20:38 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-11-18 17:11 ` Robert Thorpe
2017-11-16 21:55 ` Michael Piotrowski
2017-11-16 23:05 ` Joseph C. Fineman
2017-11-17 0:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-17 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-18 20:29 ` clhs on other languages f.nikolakopoulos
2017-11-21 0:43 ` Robert Thorpe
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2017-11-17 23:34 ` Transposing words over middle words Joseph C. Fineman
2017-11-18 0:05 ` Emanuel Berg
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2017-11-18 22:55 ` Joseph C. Fineman
2017-11-18 23:57 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.3856.1510903218.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-17 23:35 ` Joseph C. Fineman
2017-11-15 23:17 Bob Proulx
2017-11-15 23:35 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-16 6:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 0:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-18 17:07 ` ken
2017-11-18 19:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19 2:06 ` ken
2017-11-19 2:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19 2:34 ` John Mastro
2017-11-19 3:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-19 4:37 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-19 4:58 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-19 14:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 19:34 ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-11-16 19:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 20:09 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-11-16 21:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 22:55 ` Bob Proulx
2017-11-16 23:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 21:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 22:43 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-16 22:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-17 16:21 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-17 20:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-16 22:28 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.3765.1510789425.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-16 22:02 ` Michael Piotrowski
2017-11-16 23:00 ` Bob Proulx
2017-11-16 23:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-16 23:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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