Re: Transposing words over middle words

[Michael Piotrowski]

On 2017-11-16, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:

> I use Emacs more for prose composition than I do for coding, and I've
> often wanted this.

Me too, so I wrote conjunct-mode to address exactly this task:

  <https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/conjunct.el>

> Over the years I've written a bunch of small functions for making it
> easier to write prose (slurping spaces before punctuation after
> deleting a word, etc), but eventually have discarded most of them in
> favor of just hitting a few extra keys. I could never get the DWIM
> behavior DWIM-ish enough, and it was more of a headache watching for
> and correcting the mis-fires than it was just banging more keys.

Transposing conjuncts often happens when revising formulations, so
conjunct-mode lets you try the effect before committing to it.  This is
clearly a different approach, which probably doesn’t work for everybody
either…

Greetings

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Piotrowski                   <mxp@dynalabs.de>
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