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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-11-04 11:50:48 +0200 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-11-04 11:50:48 +0200 |
commit | f708cb22a1608f8a5aea671afebea44d216d9496 (patch) | |
tree | 9cb6c5fecb1e67a4afbaeae41df20f0507782e11 | |
parent | cd05b1db33e9518a0ffce7bfe2e7421a0509492e (diff) | |
download | emacs-f708cb22a1608f8a5aea671afebea44d216d9496.tar.gz |
Clarify doc string of 'transpose-sexps'
* lisp/simple.el (transpose-sexps): Clarify the conditions for
transposing sexps that are lists or strings. Mention the effect
of the prefix argument. (Bug#24860)
-rw-r--r-- | lisp/simple.el | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el index 8f5324f20ec..ff5774e103e 100644 --- a/lisp/simple.el +++ b/lisp/simple.el @@ -6663,9 +6663,13 @@ are interchanged." (transpose-subr 'forward-word arg)) (defun transpose-sexps (arg) - "Like \\[transpose-words] but applies to sexps. -Does not work on a sexp that point is in the middle of -if it is a list or string." + "Like \\[transpose-chars] (`transpose-chars'), but applies to sexps. +Unlike `transpose-words', point must be between the two sexps and not +in the middle of a sexp to be transposed. +With non-zero prefix arg ARG, effect is to take the sexp before point +and drag it forward past ARG other sexps (backward if ARG is negative). +If ARG is zero, the sexps ending at or after point and at or after mark +are interchanged." (interactive "*p") (transpose-subr (lambda (arg) |