Vim-surround Alternatives

vim-surround reviews and mentions

• Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024

  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

• Surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags with ease (2022)
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2023
• Macro usage of replace
  1 project | /r/vim | 12 Jul 2023

  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:

• Wrapping a range of lines in an html tag?
  2 projects | /r/vim | 2 Jun 2023

  vim-surround is likely the plugin answer.

• Quick Text Shortcuts?
  1 project | /r/vim | 24 May 2023

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

• How do you manually install plugins
  2 projects | /r/vim | 17 Apr 2023

  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:

• How to select multiple lines which are a 'component' quickly?
  1 project | /r/vim | 10 Apr 2023

  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 anything like "vim-surround" built-in?
  1 project | /r/AstroNvim | 28 Mar 2023

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

• ShadowVim embeds Neovim inside Xcode
  3 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 23 Feb 2023

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

• Vim function to move following word into parentheses?
  3 projects | /r/vim | 14 Feb 2023

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

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