In Vim, is there a way to move an object / movement (word, character, visual selection, etc.) horizontally in a line by moving characters around it?

Question

For example, I have the following line:

object     => "plaintext",

I want to move the word "object" to the right (so this is one place from "=>"), for example:

    object => "plaintext",

The only way I know this would be (starting at the beginning of the line): i <esc>ea4xor the equivalent from another starting location. I would like to do the same as for moving lines, but horizontally:

" Move lines up/down
nnoremap <Down> :m+<CR>==
nnoremap <Up> :m-2<CR>==
vnoremap <Down> :m '>+1<CR>gv=gv
vnoremap <Up> :m '<-2<CR>gv=gv

Answer 1

Another way to simply do horizontal movement is:

• If you have already selected the text you want to move:

  :vnoremap <A-S-l> xp`[v`]
  :vnoremap <A-S-h> xhhp`[v`]
  

• , ( ). :

  :nnoremap <A-S-l> viwxp`[v`]
  :nnoremap <A-S-h> viwxhhp`[v`]
  

• , ( ). :

  :inoremap <A-S-l> <Esc>viwxp`[v`]
  :inoremap <A-S-h> <Esc>viwxhhp`[v`]
  

:

• : Alt + Shift + l
• : Alt + Shift + h

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Answer 2

() () . , . , tabular ( Tabular.vim) vim-easy-align.

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:Tabularize/=>/r1l1l1

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