Re: transpose-words worked for few seconds

[Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:41:45AM +0100, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Sebastian Gniazdowski
> <sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've added to ~/.zshrc:
> >   bindkey "^[t" transpose-words
> >
> > I use bindkey -v. Pressing Alt-t worked like 5 times, then stopped.
> > Now it never works, even after rebotting machine. I think it can be
> > assumed that it doesn't work and worked by accident.
> >
> > Tried without bindkey -v, with bindkey "^Y" instead of "^[t". Entering
> > "a b" and pressing key combination doesn't change anything. Entering
> > "a b " swaps "b" and the last space, and does this once, without
> > swapping back.
> >
> > Tried on zsh 5.0.2, 5.0.8 and 5.2. OS X.
> 
> You have to position the cursor on the first character of the word you
> want to transpose with the one before it.

Theoretically, but practically transpose-words works really
strange on one-letter words, probably because it has trouble to
properly decide which word the cursor is pointing at.

Starting with "a b c d" using transpose-word repeatedly ("*"
denotes the cursor position):

  a b c d*
  a c b*d   (swapped the wrong words and screwed up cursor position)
  a c d b*
  a d c*b   (ditto)
  a d b c*
  a b d*c   (ditto)
  a b c d*
  ...

But

  aa bb cc dd*
  aa bb dd cc*
  aa bb cc dd*
  ...

(zsh 4.3.17)

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt
IBM Germany