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: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 20:34:51 +0100 Message-ID: <86h8tr2xes.fsf@zoho.com> References: <20171115155650067497545@bob.proulx.com> <86375fytqn.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511033732 15129 195.159.176.226 (18 Nov 2017 19:35:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 19:35:32 +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 Sat Nov 18 20:35:28 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 1eG8tk-0003iE-Cw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 20:35:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50958 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eG8tr-00060K-Nw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:35:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51091) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eG8tO-00060F-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:35:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eG8tM-0007fB-BG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43934 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eG8tM-0007f1-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eG8tA-0001dC-7u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 20:34:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:swEFYTpHHFsDqiKgOQ8ZK8grUhE= 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:114956 Archived-At: ken wrote: > I prefer this method because it's > straightforward and easy to understand, plus, > it leaves the mark where it was. However, in > instances in which the middle word is at the > end of the line, the result is unexpected: > > With the point after the '3': > > 1 2 3 4 > 5 6 7 8 > > invoking M-a yields this: > > 1 2 5 > 4 3 6 7 8 You are right, here the other function is better (defun transpose-over-word-2 () (interactive) (backward-char 1) (push-mark) (forward-word 3) (backward-char 1) (transpose-words 0) (forward-word 1) ) (local-set-key (kbd "M-a") #'transpose-over-word-2) ; try it -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573