[Ghoser777]

Maybe I'm the only one this applies to... but have you ever been in this situation..


1. Hello I am a great person

2. It would be grand if this worked out


And then you realized that you wanted grand where great is and great where grand is. Currently, switching these two words is a couple step process. Unless I'm completely out of the loop there's no way to do the following

a) copy/cut a word to the clipboard
b) select another word
c) issue a switch command - selection contents and clipboard contents are switched
d) paste clipboard contetns where you initially copied/cutted from

Does this seem like a worthwhile service?

[hayesk]

BBEdit did it with two letters - they called it twiddle.

I'm not sure how often I want to swap two different selections. I don't think it can be done just as a service. You need the ability to select two things at once.

[Ghoser777]

But all my switch command would do is make a copy of the selection in memory, put the content of the clipboard in its place, and put the copy onto the clipboard.

[Thinine]

Something like this might be more possible in Tiger since the Cocoa text fields will support multiple selection.

[Chuckit]

Originally posted by Thinine:
Something like this might be more possible in Tiger since the Cocoa text fields will support multiple selection.

In that case, there probably will be a control-key combination for switching (a la the control-t for swapping characters).

By the way, how I would do what's originally described is just cut-paste-cut-paste. It's not a whole lot more complex that some Switch command.