Re: how to reverse a region of several words?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com> writes:
>
> On Jul 29, 1:46 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> wrote:
>> sunway <sunwayfore...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I want to transpose "one two" to " two one"
>>
>> put the cursor between one and two and type:
>> M-x transpose-words RET or M-t
>
> no, I want to transpose "one two three four" to "four three two one"

(defun reverse-words (start end)
  (interactive "r")
  (let ((words (reverse (split-string (buffer-substring start end)))))
    (delete-region start end)
    (dolist (word words)
      (insert word " "))
    (backward-char 1)
    (delete-char 1)))


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