From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to reverse a region of several words? Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:00:51 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87fxpramak.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> References: <87e3b971-584c-42c5-8f4b-6a0eb32a206b@j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <6d2c67ca-89f5-4a72-81d1-be69ff37d4fe@x29g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <87vdyp9r95.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217403643 6955 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2008 07:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 30 09:41:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KO6JM-0003dU-Kr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:41:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KO6IS-0007df-9C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!usenet-fr.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-b.proxad.net!nnrp16-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jA0xAXph37aAeDakYBvET8aJpDQ= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jul 2008 08:53:25 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1217400805 news-4.free.fr 28433 88.182.134.169:47510 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160703 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56051 Archived-At: sunway writes: > > On Jul 29, 1:46 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) > wrote: >> sunway writes: >> > I want to transpose "one two" to " two one" >> >> put the cursor between one and two and type: >> M-x transpose-words RET or M-t > > no, I want to transpose "one two three four" to "four three two one" (defun reverse-words (start end) (interactive "r") (let ((words (reverse (split-string (buffer-substring start end))))) (delete-region start end) (dolist (word words) (insert word " ")) (backward-char 1) (delete-char 1))) -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ----------> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html <----------- ---> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.mccaughan/g/remarks/uquote.html <--- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/