In most Mac apps, `CTRL-T` swaps the characters on either side of the cursor location.

[masto@masto.masto.com]

@sgharms @hotdogsladies I posit that a hard core emacsism would not leave 8 fingers and all 10 toes unutilized.

[sgharms@techhub.social]

@masto @hotdogsladies after the RSI damage from years of use you’ll be lucky to have 2 usable fingers.

[njpozner@mastodon.social]

@hotdogsladies I've been a Mac user for 35 years, and am just now learning this?!

[linnefaulk@mastodon.social]

@hotdogsladies Did Bobby Jr cancel the mandatory screening right after birth?

[drumsensei@mstdn.social]

@hotdogsladies

Merlin continues to teach me so much

[gilboy@mastodon.social]

@hotdogsladies

hTis will come in so hand!y

[chrisipedia@mastodon.social]

@hotdogsladies One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts! very useful when accidentally transposing characters when typing commands into terminal.

[hotdogsladies@mastodon.social]

“Every day, somebody's born who's never seen The Flintstones.“

Every day, somebody's born who's never seen "The Flintstones."

Every day, somebody's born who's never seen "The Flintstones." - flintstones.md

Gist (gist.github.com)

[hotdogsladies@mastodon.social]

As you know, the important line is "To someone who's not you."

[salty@mastodon.nz]

@hotdogsladies According to XKCD, it's about 10,000 people ...

Ten Thousand

xkcd (xkcd.com)

[hotdogsladies@mastodon.social]

@Salty

Jeez. Isn't that guy the best?

What a brain.

[salty@mastodon.nz]

@hotdogsladies And the cool part is that I am now one of today's 10,000 hearing the Flintstones thing, and you are one of today's 10,000 hearing about the XKCD thing ...

[hotdogsladies@mastodon.social]

@Salty

Salty, at this point my brain is more explosion than brain.

Jiminy.

[kbob@chaos.social]

@sgharms @masto @hotdogsladies I first saw it in Emacs in 1977. Emacs was born (first called Emacs) in 1975, so it wasn't too old in '77.

The emacs version took numeric arguments: move the character to the left of the cursor right N positions and leave the cursor to its right so another ^T will move the same char further. Negative N undid it: move the char and cursor to the left abs(N) positions left.

Someone in this thread has already mentioned Meta-T (transpose words).

[nathanking@mastodon.social]

@hotdogsladies It was never about The Flintstones, that’s the beauty in it. Stop and look at life through someone else’s eyes for a half second. Consider other perspectives. The last thing this world needs is more people incapable of doing this.

[danmorgan@vmst.io]

@hotdogsladies I used this quote in a meeting and one young women nodded and smiled! She had heard it too. I felt so validated. (She’s a statistician and clearly wired in a similarly way.)