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Easy way to swap characters in command line with emacs key bindings?

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Mar 15, 20263680 views
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If I'm in vi, and I see that I've transposed two characters, it is easily fixed by putting the cursor over the first and typing followed by in command mode. Is there a similar trick that works at the bash command line in emacs mode? I realize that I can set to vi key bindings, but I prefer not to dā€¦

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Fix for: Easy way to swap characters in command line with emacs key bindings?

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Emacs key binding Ctrl-t runs the command transpose-chars, which also works in the terminal

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