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 01:48:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AB5BD6.4060509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00b901c90254$ec15a640$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?
>
> It depends on what you meant. If that's what you meant, then it's the same
> thing. ;-)
>
> But just moving the next or previous word to the other side of the region is
> different from swapping their places around the separators.
>
> region sep word
>
> 1. word region sep
> (word moved to other side of region)
>
> 2. word sep region
> (word and region swapped around separator)
>
> I thought perhaps you meant #1. I described #2.
I think #1 would not be consistent with word definitions etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 23:48 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)
2008-08-19 23:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-19 23:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
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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