Re: Keybinding to transpose current line with next line

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2020-09-23, at 07:02, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text 
editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> Yuri Khan wrote:
>
>> This might be good for you
>
> ...
>
>> but org-drag-line-* have a couple advantages over
>> this:
>>
>> * They do not pollute the kill ring.
>
> OK, so use `let', `thing-at-point' (with 'line) and
> `insert' instead.
>
>> * As you drag the line, point stays on the same
>> character where you started.
>
> If you want to edit the line, why start with moving
> it? It is more likely you wish to edit the
> other line.

Why?  Imagine working on a book, and in the file, every sentence has its
own line.  You may want to move some sentence and then reword it
(e.g., change "above" to "below" etc.).

And a similar case can be made for code, JSON, whatever.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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