From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joe_f@verizon.net (Joseph C. Fineman) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:35:03 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <86efowzdg8.fsf@verizon.net> References: <86efoxvn8i.fsf@verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510961748 1024 195.159.176.226 (17 Nov 2017 23:35:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:35:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 18 00:35:45 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 1eFqAi-0008JF-Iq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:35:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eFqAm-0005Q7-60 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:35:48 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="971542968a76e954c9024b6b609f198e"; logging-data="647"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+xc4qvPJKBLlVSaXX4k/fd" Cancel-Lock: sha1:eSzJtsH8XDGbHNkln052YakPWgY= sha1:tuR3h36JFwk1MD2W5AzUpLsuQ6g= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220838 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:114947 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: joe_f@verizon.net (Joseph C. Fineman) >> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:05:01 -0500 >> >> I think that, rather than expending cleverness on that particular >> problem, and then trying to remember the result, I would write a command >> that solved a more general problem & would be easy to remember. Namely, >> after I set the mark successively at the beginning and end of a passage, >> and then at the beginning of another passage, and then going to the end >> of the latter passage, it would, on being called, exchange the former >> with the latter passage (using the mark ring). > > Isn't that what the zero argument to M-t already does? No, as far as I can tell from the manual. -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: A man is only a woman's way of inseminating another woman. :||