From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:26:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20171116152231522684703@bob.proulx.com> References: <871skywvp4.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <83o9o2i4xz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510871251 23688 195.159.176.226 (16 Nov 2017 22:27:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:27:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) 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 23:27:27 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 1eFSd2-0005iL-Qy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:27:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43066 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFSdA-0004f4-6B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFSci-0004ez-Jh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:27:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFScd-0001cp-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:27:04 -0500 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:49966) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFScd-0001ZV-Hm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:26:59 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0701B2D2 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:26:58 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0EF4217E5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:26:57 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C715E2DC5C; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:26:57 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83o9o2i4xz.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 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:114910 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Why not > > . move point to "Jack", type C-SPC > . type M-2 M-f to move point to "Jill" > . type M-0 M-t to swap words > > ? Oh! I never knew about that functionality before. 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. That's pretty cool! I hadn't realized it had this built in. It still requires a lot of setup. One must move to the beginning of one word, set the mark, move to the beginning of the other word, M-0 M-t or C-u 0 ESC t if I can't make the meta work on that keyboard. But it is quite general and I can think of other cases in my editing where I might use such a thing. Thanks! Bob