Use this page to discuss script 1697 surround: delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags/much more
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- Do not document the script here (the author should do that on vim.org).
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About description[]
On vim.org, tags are stripped from description so that it is hard to understand. One should read the description on the author's github site instead.
Disabling spaces[]
How can I disable the spaces added when surrounding? It's good practice at least in Python to surround function parameters with spaces and brackets or parens.
- Is this what you're looking for? From :help surround-replacements:
If either ), }, ], or > is used, the text is wrapped in the appropriate pair of characters. Similar behavior can be found with (, {, and [ (but not <), which append an additional space to the inside. Like with the targets above, b, B, r, and a are aliases for ), }, ], and >.
- And then from :help surrond-targets:
Eight punctuation marks, (, ), {, }, [, ], <, and >, represent themselves and their counterparts. If the opening mark is used, contained whitespace is also trimmed.
- Note these help topics are included in the documentation supplied with surround.vim, they are not part of the built-in Vim help.
- –Fritzophrenic 16:41, September 27, 2011 (UTC)
Insert tail question[]
Hi Tim, I found this script just now and feel nice about your work. And when I read the documentation, there is one place which I cannot understand what it means. Could you please help to specify the function usage to me ?
- Finally, It is possible to always append a string to surroundings in insert mode (and only insert mode).
- This is useful with certain plugins and mappings that allow you to jump to such markings.
let g:surround_insert_tail = "<++>"
--Alfred Sun, April 27, 2015