TextWrangler: hotkeys to move line up/down

Question

In Eclipse you can press ALT-(arrows) to move a line up or down.

Has anyone discovered these hotkey features in TextWrangler?

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 25 '16 at 06:46

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For Mac OS X it is ctrl+&uparrow; or ctrl+&downarrow;.

You may need to change the Mission Control hotkey settings (in System Preferences) as the two keyboard strokes are preset there.

edited Aug 25 '16 at 06:46

Kristian

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answered Jan 25 '16 at 02:18

Tim

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '11 at 21:26

There's nothing mentioned in the manual (only Exchange characters and Exchange words).

If TextWrangler supports the Cocoa Text System (which I suspect it doesn't, but still) you can create the file ~/Library/Keybindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict and enter the following:

{
    "~\UF701" = (
        "moveToBeginningOfLine:",
        "deleteToEndOfLine:",
        "deleteForward:",
        "moveDown:",
        "yank:",
        "insertNewline:",
        "moveUp:"
    );
}

This will add the shortcut Opt-DownArrow for a line-swap command (with the line below) to every application supporting the Cocoa text system.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '11 at 20:31

I do not think TextWrangler has this built in.

You can run applescripts in TextWrangler though, so you could make this work. I even found some applescripts that will do this.

You will need to replace BBEdit with TextWrangler in the applescripts. Put the scripts in "~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Scripts/" and they will show up on the scripts menu in TextWrangler. Click Window -> Palettes -> Scripts to view the scripts palette, where you can set custom keyboard shortcuts.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 02 '24 at 09:21

If you'd like to leave the default mission control, and can face using control option then I started with the system preferences as mentioned here TextWrangler: hotkeys to move line up/down, but found it easier to change the Bbedit

ctrl+↑ & ctrl+↓

to

ctrl+option+↑ & ctrl+option+↓

In the menu settings, File->Settings Select Menu & Shortcuts select Edit unfold Lines Click on the existing shortcut for Move Line Up change it, and repeat for down

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 03 '12 at 12:45

nathangs solution works pretty well. But the provided link does not work anymore. So here are the scripts as plain text. Just paste them into the "AppleScript Editor" and save them to ~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Scripts/

Works fine on Mountain Lion and with TextWrangler 4.

MoveLineDown.scpt:

tell application "TextWrangler"
    set x to startLine of selection
    tell text 1 of window 1
        if x = (count of lines) then return
        set myline to contents of line x
        delete line x
        if length of line x = 0 then
            make line at line x with data "
"
            make line at line (x + 1) with data myline
        else
            make line at line x with data myline

        end if
        select insertion point before line (x + 1)
    end tell
end tell

MoveLineUp.scpt:

tell application "TextWrangler"
    set x to startLine of selection
    if x = 1 then
        beep
        return
    end if
    tell text 1 of window 1
        set oldCount to count of lines
        set myline to contents of line x
        delete line x
        if x = 2 then
            if length of line 1 = 0 then
                make line at beginning with data "
"
            end if
            make line at beginning with data myline
        else
            if length of line (x - 2) = 0 then
                make line at line (x - 2) with data "
"
                make line at line (x - 1) with data myline
            else
                make line at line (x - 2) with data myline
            end if
        end if
        select insertion point before line (x - 1)
    end tell
end tell

TextWrangler: hotkeys to move line up/down

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