NrrwRgn VS vim-surround

Throwback to a real classic: narrow region

I lean a fair bit in the opposite direction. If a sort is any more complex than -n or -k, I tend to vipe¹ my sort in my editor.

It feels great when you can use narrow-to-region² to perfect a complex address or write a custom function with all your editor's power at your fingertips. With the sad, but obvious, drawback that the changes aren't linked in your disjoint shell and editor history.

¹ https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/moreutils/vipe.1.en.html

² Nowadays, that is more likely https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn for me.

NrrwRgn ?

chrisbra/NrrwRgn - Opens focussed part "region" of the buffer

On a more general level, Christian Brabandt's re-imagining of emacs' region narrowing can be a great work to work files that contain complex embedded strings.

Much like the emacs feature it is useful outside this specific use case too, and it can be a great way to perform heavy edits without needing to care about boundaries and such.

¹ https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn

Wow! It's like https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn with steroids! Good job!

https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn might work. Narrow the region to that of only the script and change the filetype (:set filetype=typescript) of the narrowed regions buffer (it will open a separate window, with its own buffer) to that of the server you want and then do :Lsp start. Haven't tried it myself as I do not write any html with embedded script.

My use case is somewhat similiar to https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn and maybe i could tweak it to actually do it, but i feel it's not quite there. I'd like to still se the other regions of the code while editing.

I don't know what exactly you mean by pasting around the second selection, but you can paste selections, registers or even files at specific lines with some vim-fu. If it's generic enough you could write a function or even keyboard shortcut if it's very simple.

I have set ",',(,[,{ in visual mode to cut the selection insert the pairs then paste it back as a very hacky solution, but it gets the job done. If you want something more advanced to add or change anything around the selection tpope has solved that with vim-surround[1].

[1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

ysw https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround basically i surround the word with " So basically i wanted to surround the first word in line qoutes and then replace the first occurence of = with : Example:

vim-surround is likely the plugin answer.

If you have Tim Pope's vim-surround plugin, you can also add this to your Vimrc:

If you don't want to leverage Vim's package feature or you want to put your plugins in some other place, add the folder of the plugin to your :h 'runtimepath'. For example, if you download Tim Pope's vim-surround at ~\Documents\vim-surround, you should add this to your Vim configuration:

I'm using the vim-surround plugin by tPope and I know I can do ysw to surround words with whatever tag i want, I also know about cst (Change surrounding tag). But I'm wondering if there is a quick and easy way to wrap components. Some components might have closing tag and some components might not.

Is there any similar plugin to https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround?

Vim plugins (without UI) work out of the box. Hello vim-surround, argtextobj.vim and whatnot.

If you don't insist on staying in insert mode then you can use vim-surround, which is perfect for this: yse