neovim surround plugins require too many keystrokes

posted 1 year ago

I’ve tried all the surround plugins but what I really want is just the simple flow of: make a selection -> press “, ( etc to surround. Is that not possible with vim?

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Spore@lemmy.ml

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1 year ago

It’s possible but would be awkward without making significant changes to default key mapping. ", , and ( are all motions by default, using them with a selection means “move one end of the selection to there”.
Even “selection-first” editors like kakoune and helix binds the surround command with a prefix (select → surround operator → symbol). It just works better that way.

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