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Re: Transposing words over middle words


From: Rusi
Subject: Re: Transposing words over middle words
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:57:18 -0800 (PST)
User-agent: G2/1.0

On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 10:12:36 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Stefan Monnier
> > 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.

Org mode (at least) is full of functions for which C-u means change some 
behavior (C-u C-u changes more) and has nothing to do with some magic number 4


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