[Programming] Getting to know your editor's transpose-letter, transpose-word, and transpose-line functionality

Does your text editor have transpose-letter, transpose-word, and transpose-line functionality? If so, it’s worth learning the keyboard shortcuts for them. On my editor, jEdit, I have assigned these to C-t C-t, C-t C-w, and C-t C-l. On Emacs they are C-t, M-t, C-x C-t.

This is one of the tips in Steve Yegge's article Effective Emacs. For non-Emacs users, it’s an interesting exercise to translate the tips to your own editor. Other tips include:

• delete previous word
• forward/reverse incremental search
• repeating commands n times
• splitting/unsplitting windows
• reapplying line wrapping to a paragraph
• rectangle editing