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From: Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: DWIM when yanking strings with leading or trailing spaces - an idea
Date: 4 Mar 2016 08:50:26 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <djt0iiF4rsnU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6683.1457071595.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

EN:SiS(9)
Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> OK, I can also prove that every permutation can be decomposed into
> a superposition of transpositions.
>
> ;-)

By all means. ;-)

I just wanted to say (but perhaps I should actually have said it ;-)
that I personally rarely find myself wishing Emacs would insert that
extra space. I either use transpose-words couple of times, with or
without prefix arguments, or I kill the relevant word together with a
space before or after and yank it in such a way that that space is in
the right position. (I admit I get it wrong sometimes...)

What I do run into from time to time, is wanting to transpose clauses
within a sentence and having to manually adjust the punctuation and
possibly an "and" or an "or". But I suspect we'll have to plug Emacs
into Skynet first before it can be taught to autocorrect such cases.

Anyway, my opinion shouldn't stop you from creating such a package, of
course. I mean, it bugs you, so that should be enough of a reason,

right? ;-)

-- 
Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-04  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.6655.1457033503.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-03-03 23:25 ` DWIM when yanking strings with leading or trailing spaces - an idea Joost Kremers
2016-03-04  6:06   ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6683.1457071595.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-03-04  8:50     ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2016-03-04  9:11       ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]       ` <mailman.6691.1457083030.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-03-04  9:45         ` Joost Kremers
2016-03-04 12:57           ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-03 19:31 Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-03 19:45 ` Kaushal Modi

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