Sara Ford's WebLog

Sara,

never used this. now that i know of it - still don't think i will use it.

WM_SORRY

-thomas woelfer

I really only use this feature for fun (or press it by accident)...

I sometimes open a C++ program, go to the first line, and hold Ctrl-Shift-T until it's all been transposed. The output vaguely looks like a program, and I find it quite amusing :)

I guess Alt-Shift-T might be useful to me. But then again, I'm already pretty used to the whole "Ctrl-L Up Home Ctrl-V" business.

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 :-)

Sara,

It's really cool functionality. I doubt in the real world people using this functionality. What do you think?

Hello! I'm a fellow keyboard junkie and I've never understood how this feature could be useful. I never really find myself needing to swap lines/words/characters like this. The closest I come to that is using CTRL+L to copy the current line to the clipboard and CTRL+V to place is back where I want it.

I'll be interested to see if anyone else comments on this one.

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.

I use line transpose a lot for reordering lines.  It can be a lot easier than cut/paste at times, especially since you don't have to select the text or get the cursor into the right place for the paste.  It's especially helpful when I have something on the clipboard that I want to keep there for a minute while I rearrange lines.

I don't remember ever using word transpose, but I do use character transpose.  I started using those back in my Emacs days, using a terminal, so no mouse, and it was a LOT faster than cut/paste.

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")};

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.

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.

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.

I have only used it by accident up till now :)

I use transpose line frequently. Useful when wrapping some code in an "If ... End If" statement which the editor autocompletes. Using transpose line is a quick way to move the End If down below the code you want to wrap.

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

Нажмите Ctrl+T для переноса символа, Нажмите Ctrl+Shift+T для переноса слова, Нажмите Alt+Shift+T для