Re: Transposing words over middle words

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Thu, Nov 16 2017, Joost Kremers wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16 2017, Loris Bennett wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> It seems moderately elegant to me, because it involves a fairly 
>> simple
>> ordering of only two different functions.  Having said that, I 
>> don't do
>> it that regularly and so still often screw it up.
>
> There is a slightly quicker way of doing it (with | indicating 
> point):

Come to think of it, in terms of key presses, it's not quicker at 
all... ;-) Anyway, I thought using a prefix argument would help, 
but when it's only a single word you're jumping over, it doesn't.



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