I wrote the following version of transpose-chars which is supposed to always transform the last two chars without moving the point. (defun gosmacs-tranpose-chars (n) (interactive "p") (save-excursion
(forward-char (- n)) (transpose-chars 1)))
The trouble is, even though I have used save-excursion, the point does move 2 characters backwards when n=1! For other values of n, this seems to be working fine.
Regards, Jyothis V
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