From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:42:10 +0200 Message-ID: <83k1yohn6l.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871skywvp4.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <83o9o2i4xz.fsf@gnu.org> <20171116152231522684703@bob.proulx.com> <23054.41962.848150.764633@mail.eng.it> <23054.42180.139282.82688@mail.eng.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510936974 12343 195.159.176.226 (17 Nov 2017 16:42:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:42:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 17 17:42:50 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 1eFjj5-0002oR-T6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:42:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFjjD-0002ho-9c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:42:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39015) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFjio-0002hd-SA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:42:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFjij-000595-TU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:42:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFjij-00058t-QO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3043 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eFjij-0002Of-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:42:25 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:03:37 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:114936 Archived-At: > 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.