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 22:15:30 +0100 Message-ID: <86h8tu53il.fsf@zoho.com> References: <20171115155650067497545@bob.proulx.com> <87vaia9e9v.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510867008 474 195.159.176.226 (16 Nov 2017 21:16:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:16:48 +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 22:16:43 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 1eFRWI-0007QP-GF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:16:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFRWP-0003rn-U3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:16:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49671) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFRVv-0003re-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFRVr-00039A-Sg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43928 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFRVr-000381-MM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:15:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eFRVe-0005fU-FN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:15:42 +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: sha1:4XD7Qd+3p87oJexFV7ApvWW8Zsg= 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:114906 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> 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. >> >> (info "(emacs) Transpose") > > I had no idea! How cool is that? > Thanks a lot!!! Cool indeed, but the mark business makes it as complicated anyway compared with transposing two times: (defun transpose-over-word () (interactive) (transpose-subr #'forward-word 2) (backward-word 1) (transpose-subr #'forward-word -1) ) (defun transpose-over-word-2 () (interactive) (backward-char 1) (push-mark) (forward-word 3) (backward-char 1) (transpose-words 0) (forward-word 1) ) ;; Jack and Jill ;; ^ ;; point here at invocation -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573