Visual Studio Code Surround With

Question

I can't find any way to surround a selection with something in VS Code.

For example doing something like that : text => "text" just by selecting the word text and typing key "

Another example with the following text : mon tue wed thu fri sat sun

By selecting all of theses words :

mon| tue| wed| thu| fri| sat| sun|

and typing " I would like to perform something like this :

"mon" "tue" "wed" "thu" "fri" "sat" "sun"

If someone have any idea.

Thanks.

Answer 1

In VS Code hold Command + Shift + P then write: "> Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)"

In this area that you are allowed to modify, paste this inside the brackets:

{
    "key": "ctrl+p",
    "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
    "when": "editorTextFocus",
    "args": {
        "snippet": "\"${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}\""
    }
}

** note that in this example the key is set to Ctrl + p, you can change the key to whatever you prefer

Answer 2

Maybe you can try this extension, you can write your own custom wrappers:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yatki.vscode-surround

A simple yet powerful extension to add wrapper templates around your code blocks.

Features

• Supports multi selections
• Fully customizable
• Custom wrapper functions
• You can assign shortcuts for each wrapper function separately
• Nicely formated

Demo 1: Choosing wrapper function from quick pick menu

Demo 2: Wrapping multi selections

Answer 3

Using Yuri Aps' suggestion, I added the following JSON to keybindings.json. This provides the functionality Ronan Lamour requested for any file type, and without requiring an extension. It works for either single or multiple selections when using either single or double quotes. Coming from Sublime, this is helpful since it reproduces functionality Sublime provides natively.

{
    "key": "'",
    "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
    "when": "editorHasSelection",
    "args": {
        "snippet": "'${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}'"
    }
},
{
    "key": "shift+'",
    "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
    "when": "editorHasSelection",
    "args": {
        "snippet": "\"${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}\""
    }
},

Answer 4

I was coming from (neo)vim switching to VS Code, and was using Tim Pope's wonderful "vim-surround" plugin for vim before. I found a port of that plugin for VS Code. It's very useful, and incredibly efficient once you learn the shortcuts, in my opinion!

Links:

• Original plugin by Tim Pope for vim
• Port of plugin to VS Code

If you use vim or vim bindings in VS Code, please enjoy!

Edit: the VSCodeVim plugin includes the surround functionality automatically, so if you have that plugin installed, you don't really need the vscode-surround plugin.

Answer 5

This extension also exists if you want custom surround with text.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sifue.surrounding.

I just installed it and got it working perfectly

Answer 6

Update 15-02-2022:

VS Code has introduced Surround with snippets for JS/TS natively.

It may not be totally related with the question but it may help someone who landed in this question with the intent of "surround with" in vs code.

Answer 7

A more generic solution: in keybindings.json:

{
  "key": "alt+m",     
  "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
  "when": "editorHasSelection",
  "args": {
      "snippet": "$1${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}$1$0"
  }
}

Whatever you type after triggering the keybinding will be added to both ends of all selections.

Just tab to the end of the word(s) when you are done and, if you had multiple cursors Esc to remove extra cursors leaving just one.

Answer 8

Select the word you want to surround it with and enter Ctrl + Alt + T. Then just key in whatever key you want to surround it with.