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Re: Transposing words over middle words


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:28:24 -0700
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3)

Charles A. Roelli wrote:
> I would just select the two words with the mouse (point and mark
> anywhere in both words will do), then use M-t with a zero prefix
> argument:
> 
>      A numeric argument of zero is assigned a special meaning (because
>   otherwise a command with a repeat count of zero would do nothing): to
>   transpose the character (word, expression, line) ending after point with
>   the one ending after the mark.

I never knew about this functionalty before.  Pretty cool!  It is still
a little more setup than it might be.  But I can think of other cases
where I might use this capability.

Thanks for teaching me this cool feature!

Bob



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