Vim Surround With Quotes

The is called with s which tells Vim were trying to operate on something surrounding some text.

Vim surround with quotes Vim-surround emulation is worth a mention. C i w Esc P Replace iw with any other Vim motiontext object to surround other things with quotes. For double quotes highlight the string in visual mode and enter s.

For example put the cursors on a word hello and press saiw it will wrap that word with quotes. Parentheses brackets quotes XML tags and more. Vim-surround uses a lowercase s instead of S for surround commands.

Whether youre coding or writing this plugin can make your life much easier. So this will not work in a plaintext file for example. You can surround the word currently under the cursor in quotes with the following normal mode commands.

The next parameter is the such as a bracket or a quote mark. However if you use the closing instead S it will not be surrounded by spaces. I have tried vim-surround but while it seems to be able to surround with matching.

This project replaces the deprecated vim-quotable While Vim is renown for its text manipulation capabilities it nevertheless retains a bias towards ASCII that stretches back to its vi roots on Unix. Is the place of the cursor This is a long line and I want to highlight two words I want to surround both the words long and line within quotes so. Surround two words with quotes in Vim.

Replace surrounding quotes for Ask Question Asked 3 years 10 months ago. Active 8 years 11 months ago. This is configurable in the package settings if you would like to set it to the original keybinding.