From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:56:54 +0100 Message-ID: <86mv3i1fm1.fsf@zoho.com> References: <20171115155650067497545@bob.proulx.com> <86375fytqn.fsf@zoho.com> <86h8tr2xes.fsf@zoho.com> <1ef14395-df19-9b47-b952-1328368ce689@mousecar.com> <86vai710a5.fsf@zoho.com> <86r2sv0wff.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511103461 16363 195.159.176.226 (19 Nov 2017 14:57:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:57:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 19 15:57:37 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 1eGR2N-0003w9-Ex for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:57:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGR2U-0002aK-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 09:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43743) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGR1z-0002aE-PP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 09:57:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGR1w-0006wa-LR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 09:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47761 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGR1w-0006um-EM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 09:57:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGR1k-0001cw-DW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:56:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:H2n2831zWF9k9ReR3F8J4buVFwE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:114977 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >>> There is `save-mark-and-excursion', if >>> that helps. >> >> Not here it isn't :) GNU Emacs 24.4.1 Where >> do you have it? > > It was introduced in Emacs 25. It is what > used to be called `save-excursion'. ;-) OK, so I wasn't unaware of such a function. I was unaware that a function I was aware of also did that. Only now that has changed :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573