Re: Suggestion for C-t (transpose-chars)

[Dieter Wilhelm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Dieter Wilhelm <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:43:16 +0200
>> 
>> With a prefix argument ARG C-t allows to *drag* a character ARG
>> characters away.  Even though the respective code is impressively
>> elegant I think it would be more helpful when one could *transpose*
>> two characters ARG characters away from point!
>
> This behavior is so old in Emacs that I'd suggest to write a new
> command that does what you want, and leave the original one alone.
> Interested users could then rebind C-t to run that new command.

Fair enough, I'll do that.  Would you suggest to make it public on the
Emacs Wiki?

But old code does not equal used code, I really like to argue that
above behaviour would make Emacs an (infinitesimal) bit better ;-).

  Dieter

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    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany