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I like the fact that I've memorized ddp for switching two lines (i.e. dd deletes the line and then p puts it back '1 higher').

Is there are similar set of keystrokes for switching 2 characters so that wsih would become wish?

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Line swapping, character swapping and word swapping tips in vim can be found at vim.wikia.com. – Thor Sep 15 '12 at 14:16

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The answer turned out to be xp, just not the windows kind ;)

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Yes, xp transposes two characters in vi. – maxschlepzig Sep 14 '12 at 18:22
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x - eat the character under the cursor (and put it in the paste buffer); p - paste the buffer after the position of the cursor (which has advanced one character in the text). – htor Sep 14 '12 at 19:09
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Just curious. What's the "windows kind"? – Stephane Chazelas Sep 14 '12 at 19:57
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