A Vim plugin that provides a text object to surround the current line and the n lines above and below.
This can be useful when ip/ap fail to capture what you want because of annoying newlines, and you don't really care about exactly how many lines you select.
Install with your favourite package manager or Vim's built-in package management system. For example using Vim-Plug:
Plug 'bagohart/vim-textobj-surrounding-lines'
By default, this plugin does nothing. To make it work, add this line to your vimrc:
let g:textobj_surrounding_lines_enabled = 1
By default, this will map i1l, i2l ... i30l in visual mode and operator pending mode.
You can change the defaults, e.g. like this:
let g:textobj_surrounding_lines_numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
let g:textobj_surrounding_prefix = "a"
let g:textobj_surrounding_postfix = "XX"
Now, it maps a1XX, a2XX, ... a10XX accordingly.
Developed and tested on Neovim 0.4.4, but it should work on Vim 8, too.
The Vim licence applies. See :help license.