From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:57:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6ec7af50-26c3-4a03-8fcd-d389a492db02@googlegroups.com> References: <871skywvp4.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <83o9o2i4xz.fsf@gnu.org> <20171116152231522684703@bob.proulx.com> <23054.41962.848150.764633@mail.eng.it> <23054.42180.139282.82688@mail.eng.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510938071 14039 195.159.176.226 (17 Nov 2017 17:01:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:01:11 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:57:18 +0000 User-Agent: G2/1.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 17 18:01:07 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 1eFk0o-0003NW-EH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:01:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46843 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFk0v-00088Z-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:01:13 -0500 X-Received: by 10.237.62.73 with SMTP id m9mr4828311qtf.14.1510937838955; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:57:18 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.31.49.65 with SMTP id x62mr170369vkx.10.1510937838677; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:57:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!g35no182792qtk.1!news-out.google.com!v55ni25qtc.0!nntp.google.com!g35no182787qtk.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.223.154.191; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.223.154.191 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220827 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:114937 Archived-At: On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 10:12:36 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Stefan Monnier > > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:03:37 -0500 > > > > > C-u 0 M-t works fine. > > > > BTW, I'd argue that C-u M-t should work as well: currently it is treated > > like C-u 4 M-t, but I think it's a poor choice. > > Really? That a lone C-u means an arg of 4 is burnt into our muscle > memory for decades. Compare with "C-u C-n". A command that receives > a numerical argument normally treats all of its arguments as numbers. > Breaking that in a single command sounds like a misfeature. Org mode (at least) is full of functions for which C-u means change some behavior (C-u C-u changes more) and has nothing to do with some magic number 4