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Re: how to reverse a region of several words?
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: how to reverse a region of several words? |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:00:51 +0200 |
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sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com> writes:
>
> On Jul 29, 1:46 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> wrote:
>> sunway <sunwayfore...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I want to transpose "one two" to " two one"
>>
>> put the cursor between one and two and type:
>> M-x transpose-words RET or M-t
>
> no, I want to transpose "one two three four" to "four three two one"
(defun reverse-words (start end)
(interactive "r")
(let ((words (reverse (split-string (buffer-substring start end)))))
(delete-region start end)
(dolist (word words)
(insert word " "))
(backward-char 1)
(delete-char 1)))
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