From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move selection up, down Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:30:20 +0200 Message-ID: <48AB578C.8060407@gmail.com> References: <1422fa24-05d5-436b-82e2-b436af0a00a3@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com><48AB3F8C.4020703@gmail.com><00b201c9024b$54d92710$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <48AB5019.1090608@gmail.com> <00b801c90252$5c847c10$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219188655 21732 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2008 23:30:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:30:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jiri.pejchal@gmail.com, 'Emacs Devel' To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 20 01:31:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KVafn-0005iM-1I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:31:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVaeo-0001bb-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVaek-0001bV-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVaej-0001ar-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33442 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVaei-0001ao-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:51857) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVaei-00076X-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:60023 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KVaec-0004Zo-8w; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:30:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <00b801c90252$5c847c10$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080819-0, 2008-08-19), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KVaec-0004Zo-8w. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KVaec-0004Zo-8w 92841611613b48c2e9ac953a088e314a X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102693 Archived-At: 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. > > >