Re: transpose-sexps

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Pogonyshev <address@hidden> writes:

> Stuart D. Herring wrote:
>> It assumes that you are outside of strings or lists, so it saw
>>              " "
>> and
>>               f
>> as your two sexps, and exchanged them.  It's just confusing that it looks
>> like the f was moved into the other string.
>
> It's not just confusing, it's a bug.  If it doesn't work and this is not
> (easily) fixable, make it do nothing or report an error.  Producing confusing
> results is worse than doing nothing.

How can you know that " " and f aren't actually the sexps that are
supposed to be transposed?

Andreas.

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