bug#21885: 24.5; Transposing things with a negative argument

[Eli Barzilay]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
>> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:11:42 -0600
>> Cc: 21885@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> writes:
>>
>> > In the past (IIRC, up to around v24.3) transposing things (chars,
>> > words, sexprs, lines) would always leave the point after the
>> > transposed thing. ...  This is no longer happenning.
> [...]
>
> I think I know the answer: the difference is visible only if you
> invoke C-t with a negative argument, as in "C-- C-t".

Yes, exactly -- and yes, this is the same bug as #20698.  I looked at
the code a bit more since then, and I think that my patch is a fine fix.

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