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Did you know... How to transpose characters, words, and lines in the editor? - #021

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Transpose example

  • Press Ctrl+T to transpose a character
  • Press Ctrl+Shift+T to transpose a word
  • Press Alt+Shift+T to transpose a line

In the above example (where the cursor is placed before the "is" on the commented line "now is the time"),

  • Pressing Ctrl+T will swap the ‘i’ and the previous space, creating  // nowi s the time
  • Pressing Ctrl+Shift+T will swap the "is" and "the", creating // now the is time
  • Pressing Alt+Shift+T will swap the current line with the line below it

Just out of curiosity, I’d love to know how people use this feature, so please leave me a comment.  

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 22, 2007
    Sara, never used this. now that i know of it - still don't think i will use it. WM_SORRY -thomas woelfer

  • Anonymous
    August 22, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2007
    I use Ctrl+T quite often, because wrong order of charactes is a common typo for me. Sometimes I try Ctrl+T in Outlook or Word - then remember that it's not VS :-)

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2007
    Sara, It's really cool functionality. I doubt in the real world people using this functionality. What do you think?

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    August 23, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2007
    I've used it to reorder arrays of numbers. It was also big help converting from ARGB color value sequences to BGRA. Hm, now that I think of it, I could have used this in a macro.

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2007
    Henning:  I'm really curious how you use this to fix typos.  Can you share what your keyboard sequence is?  Is it something like,

  1. type "stirng"  
  2. arrow left a few times to the cursor is between 'i' and 'r'
  3. press Ctrl+T now that i'm thinking about it, this might actuall have fewer keystrokes then backspacing the entire work (or deleting the entire word) then retyping it.  I'll give it a try for a day =)

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    August 23, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2007
    Has to be one of my most used features.  It's unfortunate that it isn't completely language-aware though.  Often, when I use Ctrl+Shift+T I expect it to swap C# statements.  For example: new int[] {method(1), method("text")};                    ^ Placing the cursor before the comma and pressing Ctrl+Shift+T I usually expect the result to be: new int[] {method("text"), method(1)}; instead of new int[] {method(method), 1("text")};

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2007
    I remap Ctrl+T to Edit.QuickInfo to match VC6. I never transpose text often enough to bother learning the keystrokes for it, I just cut/paste as needed.

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2007
    I use word transpose fairly frequently - mostly for mathematical expressions that I've messed up. As has already been pointed out, it's also useful for reordering arrays, enums, and anything similar.

  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2007
    I'm with Peter Richie - if it were also more language aware (swap statements, statement blocks or even methods) it would be much more useful.

  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2007
    I have only used it by accident up till now :)

  • Anonymous
    October 11, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2008
    文字を入れ替えるには、 Ctrl + T キーを押します。 単語を入れ替えるには、 Ctrl + Shift + T キーを押します。 行を入れ替えるには、 Alt + Shift + T キーを押します

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2008
    Нажмите Ctrl+T для переноса символа, Нажмите Ctrl+Shift+T для переноса слова, Нажмите Alt+Shift+T для

  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2008
    本篇包括tip21-tip30http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-3.html#021、调整字符、...

  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2008
    本篇包括tip21-tip30 http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-3.html #021、调整...