Mar 31
Press Control + T to swap the two characters before the cursor. Appel > Apple
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Tips and Tricks for Apple’s Leopard operating system
Press Control + T to swap the two characters before the cursor. Appel > Apple
March 31st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Very interesting tips. It’s working in almost all the APPLE own applications such as apple script, text edit, stickies and so on…
Nice grab!!!
March 31st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
It’s a little thing, but quite useful sometimes.
Thanks !
March 31st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
it’s a really strange one! pretty cool
March 31st, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Nice to know but a little bit of context would have been handy.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Very strange one.. why the hell would they implement such a shortcut..?
But yeah, thanks, nice find.
March 31st, 2008 at 9:42 pm
The wording of this tip is in error. Control T will switch two characters, but they are the characters on both sides of the cursor. For instance if you have misspelled the word “the” as teh. Place your cursor between the e and the h and press Control T and they will switch.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Hey Tanya,
If the cursor is in the middle of a word it does just as you said and switches the letters on either side. It also works at the end of the word too though. Try it out with your “teh” example. You can fix it either by putting the cursor at the end of the word, or between the e and the h and pressing ctl + T
April 1st, 2008 at 12:24 am
Aariq is correct as long as “teh” is not followed by any other character, e.g. if you have “teh and”, then it will only work, when the cursor is positioned between the “e” and “h”.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:34 am
Doesn’t seem to work with Pages.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:54 am
For me it works in Pages ‘08
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 am
That I believe is actually an Emacs keystroke, which work in all Cocoa apps. Others are ^A to move to the beginning of a line, ^E to the end, ^K to delete from the cursor to the end of the line.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 am
It seems that CTRL + T basically drags whatever letter is to the left of the cursor to the right each time you press the key combination. If you take a letter near the beginning of a long word (I typed a long bit of gibberish with no spaces in TextEdit to test this), and keep hitting CTRL T, it will drag that letter through the word and then at the end start to do the reverse-letter thing… In fact, it will drag that letter through your sentence, paragraph, or whatever until it gets to the last typed character before a new paragraph.. At least in TextEdit. Odd!
April 4th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Yes, I agree with Tanya, the wording of the Tip is wrong, The cursor has to be placed BETWEEN the two letters to swap them over. The wording of the Tip is also wrong in that it shouls use “Cintrol + t”, that is lower case “t”. Nevertheless it has proved useful
April 10th, 2008 at 7:25 am
I guess maybe I’m not holding my mouth right. I’ve tried this shortcut several times and ways and it does nothing. I’m using WORD.
April 10th, 2008 at 7:26 am
I must not be holding my mouth right. I’ve tried this several times and several ways and it doesn’t work. I’m using WORD.