From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there any existing solution to move list number backwards, forwards in a list?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:13:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwn8txqvu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a77b7ffcb54ce8bfeef54a6f2112fde5.support1@rcdrun.com
> Let us say item is number 7 in following list:
>
> '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
>
> Then I wish to move item number 7 to different number and renumber all
> items so that number 7 becomes number 6 and number 6 comes in the
> place of number 7.
That was clear (ahem) :-)
> Situation is more complex,
I suspect so. From where I stand, the normal answer is to change the
priority of the relevant object and then to pass your list to `sort`
with the appropriate so it re-sorts based on the new priorities.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-21 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-21 7:56 Is there any existing solution to move list number backwards, forwards in a list? Jean Louis
2022-10-21 9:28 ` [SOLVED]: " Jean Louis
2022-10-21 13:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-10-21 15:54 ` Jean Louis
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