reverse-region-wordwise

reverse-region-wordwise

[Roland Winkler]

Is there somewhere a function reverse-region-wordwise or do I have
to write it by myself?

Thanks,

Roland

Re: reverse-region-wordwise

[Kevin Rodgers]

Roland Winkler wrote:

> Is there somewhere a function reverse-region-wordwise or do I have
> to write it by myself?

I think you'll have to roll your own, but you could probably get what

you need by making just a few changes to reverse-region in sort.el.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: reverse-region-wordwise

[Roland Winkler]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Roland Winkler wrote:
> 
> > Is there somewhere a function reverse-region-wordwise or do I have
> > to write it by myself?
> 
> I think you'll have to roll your own, but you could probably get what
> 
> you need by making just a few changes to reverse-region in sort.el.

Yes and no. I haven't decided yet which features I actually would
like to have. In particular, how should this function handle
different wordbreak characters like whitespace and newline?

Roland

Re: reverse-region-wordwise

[Kevin Rodgers]

Roland Winkler wrote:

> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
>>Roland Winkler wrote:
>>>Is there somewhere a function reverse-region-wordwise or do I have
>>>to write it by myself?
>>
>>I think you'll have to roll your own, but you could probably get what
>>you need by making just a few changes to reverse-region in sort.el.
> 
> Yes and no. I haven't decided yet which features I actually would
> like to have. In particular, how should this function handle
> different wordbreak characters like whitespace and newline?

Well, what are the choices?

1. Preserve the whitespace verbatim between words, so that

a b c
d e
f

becomes

f
e d
c b a

2. Preserve the shape of the paragraph, so that it becomes

f e d
c b
a

I think (1) would be easier to implement and makes a more sensible
default, so I'd start there.  Then you could implement (2) as an option
(e.g.  controlled by a prefix arg).

-- 
Kevin Rodgers