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Re: Transposing words over middle words


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:42:10 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:03:37 -0500
> 
> > C-u 0 M-t works fine.
> 
> BTW, I'd argue that C-u M-t should work as well: currently it is treated
> like C-u 4 M-t, but I think it's a poor choice.

Really?  That a lone C-u means an arg of 4 is burnt into our muscle
memory for decades.  Compare with "C-u C-n".  A command that receives
a numerical argument normally treats all of its arguments as numbers.
Breaking that in a single command sounds like a misfeature.



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