From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to reverse a region of several words?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:43:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od4f95qb.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d82d5efc-da8e-468d-9810-5d5c52795b42@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (sunway's message of "Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:27:14 -0700 (PDT)")
sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com> writes:
> no, I want to transpose "one two three four" to "four three two one"
,----
| (defun reverse-sentence-region (&optional separator)
| (interactive "P")
| (let ((beg (point))
| (sentence)
| (separator))
| (when current-prefix-arg
| (setq separator (read-string "Separator: ")))
| (kill-region beg (mark))
| (setq sentence (nth 0 kill-ring))
| (setq sentence (split-string sentence (if separator
| separator)))
| (setq sentence (reverse sentence))
| (setq sentence (mapconcat #'(lambda (x) x)
| sentence
| (if separator
| separator
| " ")))
| (insert sentence)))
`----
1) Mark region
2) Run M-x reverse-sentence-region
or C-u M-x reverse-sentence-region
if the words in region are separated with something else than " "
> On Jul 29, 1:46 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> wrote:
>> sunway <sunwayfore...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I want to transpose "one two" to " two one"
>>
>> put the cursor between one and two and type:
>> M-x transpose-words RET or M-t
>>
>> --
>> __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
>>
>> NOTE: The most fundamental particles in this product are held
>> together by a "gluing" force about which little is currently known
>> and whose adhesive power can therefore not be permanently
>> guaranteed.
>
--
A + Thierry Volpiatto
Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 8:11 how to reverse a region of several words? sunway
2008-07-28 9:03 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-07-28 15:00 ` tyler
2008-07-28 17:44 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-07-28 18:51 ` tyler
[not found] ` <mailman.15498.1217257259.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-29 3:13 ` sunway
2008-07-29 5:35 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-07-29 5:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-07-30 6:27 ` sunway
2008-07-30 7:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-07-30 7:43 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
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