Re: move-lines.el: a lazy programmer's package to move lines around

Hi

I'm back from my Internet-free month and ready to start a fruitful 
discussion.

First of all, thanks for the interest and the encouragement. It was a 
temptation to take my computer to the holidays and work on this, but I 
resisted :-)

Things that have come up and I've been maturing:

1.- landscape: I need to start browsing ELPA to find other packages that 
could implement something like this. I recognise that I've been using 
move-text for too long to look for alternatives.

2.- (maybe this should be first) my motivation: I was using move-text to 
move one or more lines. When writing pure text, a paragraph is just a 
block of lines and when I needed to move a sentence, I'd select the 
sentence, kill it to the kill-buffer and yank it at its new position.
move-text wasn't intuitive for this and I never tried to hard to learn 
how to do it.

3.- repeat-maps: Never used them, but happy to learn how to use them :-)

My main concern is that I don't know how to write one for the situation:

Currently, I'm using C-S-up and C-S-down and I think I would be able to 
write a repeat-map for this. However, suppose user uses C-S-up and
C-S-down to mark paragraphs and wants to remap move-lines-up and
move-lines-down. Is there a way to reflect the new bindings in a repeat map?

4.- Contributing the code: there are already a couple lines of mine in 
Emacs plain and I'm contributing a bit more to org-mode, so I don't 
think it would be a problem.

Best, /PA


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>    > >>> What exactly is your concern here?  Having a command that can move
>    > >>> around text in an interactive setting is useful in general, but also not
>    > >>> something that we expect to be upgraded and extended extensively, so
>    > >>> having it stable and complete in core sounds like a good idea to me,
> 
> That's what I thought, too, when I first saw this.  Also, I think it
> is worth some effort and discussion to choose a command interface that
> is very natural and easy for people to remember.
> 
> That could make the difference between a useful feature and a very
> handy feature.
> 

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