Line Swapping in Vim

Question

Anyone know of any tricks in vim to easily swap two lines of code? I know that swapping adjacent lines is trivial, but let's say I wanted to swap line 23 with line 52. Is that achievable?

Answer 1

yes!

:23m52|51m22 

then press Enter

it is also easy to write a function to do it.

Answer 2

My LineJuggler plugin has normal and visual mode mappings ]E and [E (and others, similar to the popular unimpaired plugin) to swap the current line / selection with [count] lines below / above.

I think a :[range]Swap {range} command would also be helpful; I'm working on that.

Edit: Here it is: LineJugglerCommands plugin.

Answer 3

If you have a visual selection when you paste, it will put the selection into the default buffer after pasting. So you would do 23Gdd51GVp23GP

Answer 4

user move command to move lines. e.g., swap line 23 and line 52:

:23m52 | 52m23

type :help move to get help usage of move, it may move a range of lines :-)