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The Trash Buffer

If you use ^T, ^Y, ^QY or ^QT for deleting, the deleted text part will be stored in a "trash buffer". With ^U, you can paste the content of the trash buffer to the current cursor position. This is e.g. useful for changing the position of two words: ^T^F^U. The trash buffer is independent from the clipboard.

Multi trash buffer

You can use e.g. ^T "delete right word" and ^U "paste deleted word/line" several times and move e.g. several words or lines. But if you move the cursor between several ^T keypresses, the multi-undo is no more available. It also works with ^Y "delete line": you are able to move whole pararaphs by this way.

Sample:
one two five six three four seven

Place the cursor at the beginning of 'five'
press Ctrl-T Ctrl-T to delete two words
place the cursor at the beginning of 'seven'
press Ctrl-U Ctrl-U to eject the two words at the current cursor position