GNU bug report logs - #14037
24.3.50; Transpose characters with negative argument does not move point

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:08:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 20698, 21885

Found in versions 24.3.50, 24.5, 25.0.50

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50;
	Transpose characters with negative argument does not move point
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:04:59 -0600

Calling `transpose-chars' with a negative prefix argument now leaves
point unchanged.  It used to move point backwards so that it was
possible to "push" a character backwards through the buffer by repeating
(transpose-chars -1).  This is something that I do occasionally and it's
very handy in much the same way that transpose-chars with a positive
prefix argument (or none) can be used to "pull" a character forward
through the buffer.  I believe that other transpose functions are also
affected.  IIRC the commit responsible is revno: 111284, though I did
the bisection a while ago.  I'm sorry I forgot to send a bug report
until now.

-Ivan
This bug report was last modified 9 years and 195 days ago.

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