GNU bug report logs - #21885
24.5; Transposing things with a negative argument

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>

Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 14037, 20698

Found in versions 24.3.50, 24.5, 25.0.50

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>
To: 21885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21885: 24.5; Transposing things with a negative argument
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 03:12:07 -0500

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In the past (IIRC, up to around v24.3) transposing things (chars,
words, sexprs, lines) would always leave the point after the
transposed thing.  This means that I could always use a `C--' prefix
to "drag" the current thing backwards in the same way that the default
action drags it forwards.  This is no longer happenning.

After a few trials the thing that seems to fix it is adding this line
at the end of the `transpose-subr' definition:

    (goto-char (+ (car pos2) (- (cdr pos1) (car pos1))))

To be clear, this is not a backward incompatible change -- it fixes
the *current* incompatible change.

Patch file attached.


[0001-Fix-transpose-subr-with-a-negative-argument.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]
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