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I'm familiar with ddp to swap lines, but what if I want to swap words on the same line? I found a Reddit post that linked to this wiki page that suggests dawbP as a word swap method, but this seems long-winded for a Vim keypress series. Is there a shorter method to execute this?

For reference, here's what I'm trying to do:

One Two Three Four

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One Three Two Four

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With your cursor between One and Two (in normal mode), type deep.

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From the wiki page, I've always used the other methods that leave the spaces the way they are.

Since that time, my mappings have evolved into something like two 30-lines long functions: https://github.com/LucHermitte/lh-misc/blob/master/plugin/vim-tip-swap-word.vim

Anyway, a 5 keys sequence isn't long. Moreover you can always define a mapping to shorten the sequence. I'm using gw and gW.

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