Re: Suggestion for C-t (transpose-chars)

[Dieter Wilhelm]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> With a prefix argument ARG C-t allows to *drag* a character ARG
>>>> characters away.  Even though the respective code is impressively
>>>> elegant I think it would be more helpful when one could *transpose*
>>>> two characters ARG characters away from point!
>
> I value also the consistency with the other transposition commands (like

I also value consistency, see for example
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/75058

> M-t and C-M-t), so we should also consider whether your suggested behavior
> is better for those cases or not.

In this case I would sacrifice the consistency between them.
Because--at least for my typing habits--the reasons for transposing
chars and words/sexps are of a different kind.

Transposing of characters has more to do with defective (touch) typing
and confusing words/sexps sequences has probably to do with some
misunderstanding/confusion of the sentence/code structure.

Thanks
-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany