From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: jiri.pejchal@gmail.com, 'Emacs Devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Move selection up, down
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:30:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AB578C.8060407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00b801c90252$5c847c10$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams wrote:
>>> What will you do with `transpose-word', for instance, when
>>> there is an active region? I don't follow the suggestion.
>>> How about some examples?
>> Move the next or previous word (depending on which side of the region
>> you are on) to the other side of the region. Is not that a natural
>> extension?
>
> Dunno. I would expect it instead to swap the region and the next or previous
> word, leaving the separator chars between them. `transpose-word' recognizes
> intervening non-word chars (any number), and swaps the words around them.
Isn't that the same thing?
> Sounds OK to me, but I don't have much of a opinion one way or the other. It
> might require users to sometimes deactivate the region to get today's effect,
> but that's no biggee.
>
> Presumably, the region would be kept active, so you could repeat the operation -
> e.g. `transpose-line' would move the region down a line each time. (That's
> another difference from today's commands - they deactivate the region.)
Yes.
> Either there used to be a command that moved the region this way or I had my
> own, long ago. I remember using it, but I haven't missed it for many moon.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 14:21 Move selection up, down jiri.pejchal
2008-08-19 21:27 ` harven
2008-08-19 22:43 ` Chat
2008-08-19 21:47 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-19 22:31 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-19 22:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-19 23:21 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-19 23:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-08-19 23:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-19 23:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-20 7:45 ` Jiri Pejchal
2008-08-20 8:15 ` martin rudalics
2008-08-20 23:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-08-20 0:45 ` Andreas Politz
2008-09-11 17:04 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-07-04 12:15 ` teemu.leisti
2014-12-12 19:14 ` jsglazer
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