Text-object surround

[musjj]

General information

• Terminal program: tmux 3.4 (tmux-256color)
• Operating system: Linux (6.6.28 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Apr 17 09:19:38 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
• ZSH framework: starship 1.18.2
• ZSH version: zsh 5.9 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
• ZVM version: zsh-vi-mode 0.11.0

Basic examination

• I have read through the README page
• I have the latest version of zsh-vi-mode
• I have tested with another terminal program

Problem description

Many implementations of surround plugins in vim/neovim allows you to use surround commands directly with a text object. For example, ysiw" will add quotes to the current word. Currently, you need to use visual mode first, like: viwS". It's not any less efficient, but muscle memory is a hell of a drug :)

[cpakkala]

Agreed; this is the one reason why I'm not using this plugin yet. "ysiw" is the most basic surround sequence, and it's not just a matter of muscle memory; it's a matter of how you think about editing. The power of vim is in the verb->object paradigm; it's how we speak and thus how I think while editing. The select-first approach is the Kakoune method, not the vim way.

[jeffreytse]

Hi @musjj, thanks for your issue about text-object surround, I will try to dive into this ASAP, currently I'm a bit busy.