In my writing, I find that I like to explore variations with one phrase coming before another, then vice versa. I’m fairly quick on the keyboard, so it isn’t a huge hassle, but today I had an epiphany—how great it would be to select the phrases I want to swap, then right-click (or option-click or whatnot) at the point where I want to them to “pivot”, and (viola) the computer moves the phrase on the right over to the left and the phrase on the left over to the right. Theoretically, this would be immediately useful for swapping sentences and paragraphs too.
Is that too idiosyncratic? Has it already been discussed and discarded? (I did a little search before this and didn’t see any results that matched this idea, but my skill with Boolean operators isn’t foolproof.)
Anyways, thanks for developing such a fantastic tool for writers!
You can mark one, then drag-and-drop it before (or after) the other. Doesn’t that do the same thing? Or is there an intervening section of the sentence? D-n-d is still a pretty quick way to do it, even if you have to repeat with the middle section.
If you want to avoid drag’n’drop, then highlighting text using keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Shift-Opt-Left arrow to select the word to the left of the cursor*) coupled with Cmd-x (cut) and Cmd-v (paste) works brilliantly too.
*Sorry, no longer remember the Win equivalent shortcut