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dwim transpose-subr opportunity?

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Message #25 received at 29346 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>, 29346 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29346: dwim transpose-subr opportunity?
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:10:54 +0200

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

>> It gets a bit silly as suggested though, I guess the logic should be
>> something like (or (= arg 0) (and transpose-dwim (use-region-p)))
>
> Maybe.  But I wonder why this relatively rare use case is so important
> as to mandate a new defcustom, whose only purpose is to save the user
> from typing M-0 or "C-u 0".  Just because people didn't read the doc
> string and therefore didn't know about the special meaning of an
> argument of zero?  But then they will not know about the proposed
> magic, either.

I think the conclusion here was that it didn't seem worth it to add a
new variable to control this behaviour (since `M-0' easy to type), so
I'm closing this bug report.

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