Re: Transposing words over middle words

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Nov 16 2017, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Assuming I'm at the end of the three words where the 
> transposition
> should take place, I usually do
>
>    Jack and Jill went up the hill.
>                 ^ point is here: M-b
>    Jack and Jill went up the hill.
>             ^ point is here: M-t
>    Jack Jill and went up the hill.
>                 ^ point is here: M-b M-b
>    Jack Jill and went up the hill.
>         ^ point is here: M-t M-t
>    Jill and Jack went up the hill.
>
> It seems moderately elegant to me, because it involves a fairly 
> simple
> ordering of only two different functions.  Having said that, I 
> don't do
> it that regularly and so still often screw it up.

There is a slightly quicker way of doing it (with | indicating 
point):

   Jack |and Jill went up the hill.

        M-2 M-t

   and Jill Jack| went up the hill.

       M-2 M-b (or M-b M-b)

   and |Jill Jack went up the hill.

       M-t

   Jill and Jack went up the hill.

But yeah, I've also been in the situation where I wished there 
were a function 'transpose two words while pretending the word 
point is on isn't there'...

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Joost Kremers
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