nvim-autopairs VS vim-surround

A couple nice quality of life plugins would be: Comment (which lets you use a keybinding to comment/uncomment things), Autopairs (which will make the paired brackets/parentheses/etc.), and Rainbow2 (which color-matches the pairs if things like parentheses).

abecodes/tabout.nvim windwp/nvim-autopairs

As an example, I give a slight edge to windwp/nvim-autopairs because it can turn 'test' into {'test'} just by pressing { instead of me having to use surround with something like gzaa'{

autopairs has worked for me

I think I have two plugins that affect this -- nvim-autopairs and cmp

Out of curiosity, how is this different from nvim-autopairs ?

Could try https://github.com/windwp/nvim-autopairs and make sure you have treesitter setup with nvim-treesitter and the elixir parser installed.

Hi everyone! I'm all new to neovim and I was trying to install the "auto-pairs" plugin, (https://github.com/windwp/nvim-autopairs), unfortunately, it seems that the plugin won't work, I tried and install the last version of lua but nothing seems to do, how can I make it work?

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

vim-surround is likely the plugin answer.

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:

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

I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that this neat feature comes from this plugin : https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

Vim can do this with the following plugin: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

I exclusively use the visual mode commands though, because I find the normal-mode commands confusing.

e.g. in vim-surround you could just do something like ysiw_ to make a word italics or ysiw*w. (assuming you also have vim-repeat).

vim-surround act on surrounding characters (think quotes, braces, parentheses...)