From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Suggestion for C-t (transpose-chars) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:43:16 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87lkdbl8az.fsf@debby.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184924585 19819 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2007 09:43:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:43:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 20 11:43:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IBp0j-00031N-EW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:42:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBp0j-0000md-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:42:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBp0f-0000mY-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:42:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBp0d-0000mM-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:42:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBp0d-0000mG-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:42:51 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IBp0c-0008G5-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IBp0U-0004n8-Rf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:42:42 +0200 Original-Received: from drms-590d520e.pool.einsundeins.de ([89.13.82.14]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:42:42 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by drms-590d520e.pool.einsundeins.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:42:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: drms-590d520e.pool.einsundeins.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w99YwBHdlddrIeHDI7w82tjXSn8= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75169 Archived-At: Hi With a prefix argument ARG C-t allows to *drag* a character ARG characters away. Even though the respective code is impressively elegant I think it would be more helpful when one could *transpose* two characters ARG characters away from point! I guess this would also be helpful for non-touch-typists. Isn't it the case that one confuses only the sequence of two *neighbouring* characters and realises that very often after typing one or two additional ones? I find myself often typing C-b, C-b, C-t and C-e. With the suggested change it would save 4 keystrokes (C-2 and C-t). Thanks for listening. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany