From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:06:16 +0200 Message-ID: <83o9o2i4xz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871skywvp4.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510848469 27463 195.159.176.226 (16 Nov 2017 16:07:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:07:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 16 17:07:41 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 1eFMhZ-0006Ub-H8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:07:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFMhd-0007AC-On for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:07:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48944) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFMg4-0006HZ-5R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:06:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFMfy-0006vj-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:06:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFMfy-0006vc-1Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:06:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1963 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eFMfx-0002wF-E0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:06:01 -0500 In-reply-to: <871skywvp4.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:114900 Archived-At: > From: "Loris Bennett" > Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 08:04:39 +0100 > > Assuming I'm at the end of the three words where the transposition > should take place, I usually do > > Jack and Jill went up the hill. > ^ point is here: M-b > Jack and Jill went up the hill. > ^ point is here: M-t > Jack Jill and went up the hill. > ^ point is here: M-b M-b > Jack Jill and went up the hill. > ^ point is here: M-t M-t > Jill and Jack went up the hill. Why not . move point to "Jack", type C-SPC . type M-2 M-f to move point to "Jill" . type M-0 M-t to swap words ?