From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:04:00 +0100 Message-ID: <86375fytqn.fsf@zoho.com> References: <20171115155650067497545@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510790687 16581 195.159.176.226 (16 Nov 2017 00:04:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:04:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) 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 01:04:43 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 1eF7fe-0003zP-KS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:04:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38396 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF7fl-00068i-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:04:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42823) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF7fH-00068a-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:04:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF7fD-0003VM-6E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43641 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eF7fC-0003UY-W7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:04:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eF7f1-0001pc-6E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:04:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:SeFKRTOpJTY6+CKN2tAoupQUcCo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:114892 Archived-At: Bob Proulx wrote: > TL;DR: How can I transpose words jumping over > middle words? (defun transpose-over-word () (interactive) (transpose-subr 'forward-word 2) (backward-word 1) (transpose-subr 'forward-word -1) ) (local-set-key (kbd "M-a") #'transpose-over-word) ; try it ;; Wolvie and Jubilee ;; ^ ;; point at invocation > Of course we all know about C-t > transpose-chars. And there is the > corresponding M-t transpose-words too. ... and many other transpose-*'es as well :) > Here is the documentation. > > ‘M-t’ transposes the word before point with > the word after point (‘transpose-words’). > It moves point forward over a word, dragging > the word preceding or containing point > forward as well. The punctuation characters > between the words do not move. For example, > ‘FOO, BAR’ transposes into ‘BAR, FOO’ rather > than ‘BAR FOO,’. The documentation shouldn't say what *doesn't* happen. Before long, people will start to think that is what actually happens... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573