Re: Saving "relative point" in a paragraph or line

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 02:34:56PM +0530, Jambunathan K wrote:
> 
>     (defadvice transpose-lines
>         (around transpose-lines-preserve-context activate)
>       "Transpose lines but preserve the surrounding text context."
>       ;; Add a bookmark at current char.
>       (add-text-properties (point) (1+ (point)) '(bookmark t))
>       ;; Transpose.
>       ad-do-it
>       ;; Visit the bookmark.  Assumes that the bookmark is at a position
>       ;; behind where the cursor is at the end of the transposition.
>       (goto-char (1- (previous-single-property-change (point) 'bookmark)))
>       ;; Remove it.
>       (remove-text-properties (point) (1+ (point)) '(bookmark)))

I adapted this to my needs; works great!

Thank you :)

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Suvayu

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