 Tip #329: A map for swapping words
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September 20, 2002 9:27 |
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Chip Campbell, Arun Easi, Benji Fisher |
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Put the following map into your <.vimrc>:
nmap <silent> gw "_yiw:s/\(\%#\w\+\)\(\W\+\)\(\w\+\)/\3\2\1/<cr><c-o><c-l>
Then when you put the cursor on or in a word, press "gw", and
the word will be swapped with the next word. The words may
even be separated by punctuation (such as "abc = def").
While we're talking swapping, here's a map for swapping characters:
nmap <silent> gc xph
This hint was formed in a collaboration between
Chip Campbell - Arun Easi - Benji Fisher
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Additional Notes
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[email protected],
September 20, 2002 11:08
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Thought I'd mention some of the reasoning behind the gw-map above. Sequences such as dawelp suffer from one or more problems:
* fencepost problems: they don't work correctly either at the beginning of a line
or at the end of a line
* single-character-word problems: mappings using b, e, or variants don't handle
single-character words properly.
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jean upfrontsystems co za,
October 5, 2002 11:03
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Looks like this doesn't swap "this" and "that" when line 2 starts with "that", and line 1 ends on "this";
that is a problem for another day :)
Just possibly Vim's newline-matching regexps will be able to cope with this .. but it's probably going
too far.
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[email protected],
December 2, 2002 7:42
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Making vim handle word swapping across a newline is
fairly straightforward:
nmap <silent> gw "_yiw:s/\(\%#\w\+\)\(\_W\+\)\(\w\+\)/\3\2\1/<cr><c-o><c-l>
Just one extra underscore (at a suitable location, of course :) .
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[email protected],
September 9, 2003 6:48
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A map for swapping paragraphs:
nnoremap g{ {dap}p{
A pair of maps for swapping a word to-the-left and to-the-right:
nnoremap <silent> gl
\"_yiw?\w\+\_W\+\%#<CR>:s/\(\%#\w\+\)\(\_W\+\)\(\w\+\)/\3\2\1/<cr><c-o><c-l>
nnoremap <silent> gr
\"_yiw:s/\(\%#\w\+\)\(\_W\+\)\(\w\+\)/\3\2\1/<cr><c-o>/\w\+\_W\+<CR><c-l>
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[email protected],
November 7, 2003 8:47
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A plugin for visual-mode based swapping is now available at
http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#VimFuncs
under "Visual Mode Based Swapping"
* Use a visual mode to select some text (V, v, or ctrl-v), then press <ctrl-y>
* Use a visual mode to select alternate text, then press <ctrl-x>
The two text regions will then be swapped.
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[email protected] - NOSPAM,
October 25, 2004 11:43
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The url in the tip-note above should now be:
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[email protected] - NOSPAM,
October 25, 2004 11:44
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The url in the tip-note above should now be:
http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#VimFuncs
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Anonymous,
October 23, 2006 11:15
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| This doesn't work for me if the words have accented characters (Vim 7.0).
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[email protected] - NOSPAM,
January 25, 2007 6:47
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| To extend the swapping to include glyphs other than [0-9A-Za-z_], which is what \w means (see :help /\w), then instead of \w and \W, use [glyphs you want here] for \w and [^glyphs you want here] for \W.
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