GNU bug report logs - #20900
25.0.50; C-u - C-t should move point backward to have a usefully repeatable command

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From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.50;
 C-u - C-t should move point backward to have a usefully repeatable
 command
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 23:57:22 +0200

In a line like this:
aaaaaaaaxy
with cursor on y (i.e. point is between x and y).

Hitting C-u - C-t moves the 'x' backwards, but the cursor stays on 'y'.
Thus hitting C-x z is mostly useless here. I expected cursor to move
backward too.

In fact this is a regression introduced by

commit aa26f345096166bd8c135876dbab9b671ae232e3
Author: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 21 13:42:59 2012 +0800

    * simple.el (transpose-subr-1): Preserve marker positions
    by changing the insertion sequence.
    
    Fixes: debbugs:13122

Message #8 received at 20900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>
Cc: 20900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20900: 25.0.50; C-u - C-t should move point backward to
 have a usefully repeatable command
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:39:43 +0200

Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org> writes:

> In a line like this:
> aaaaaaaaxy
> with cursor on y (i.e. point is between x and y).
>
> Hitting C-u - C-t moves the 'x' backwards, but the cursor stays on 'y'.
> Thus hitting C-x z is mostly useless here. I expected cursor to move
> backward too.

(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately not gotten
any responses.)

I'm unable to reproduce this bug in Emacs 27, so I'm guessing that it's
been fixed in the intervening years, and I'm closing this bug report.
If it's still present, please reopen.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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