Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim

Re:Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim by thomasmallen on Monday December 08, 2008 @09:06AM (#389836)

  <!-- Ugh. Surround is OK, but sucks for wrapping in HTML tags. If I select the line: -->

  Hello!

  <!-- And use stp (surround selection with <p/>) I get: -->

  <p>
      Hello!
  </p>

  <!-- Instead of -->
  
  <p>Hello!</p>

  <!-- The workaround? ^v$ which is tedious. I recommend mapping this for those times when you want to wrap the current line quickly in XML tags. 

  function! TagWrapper()
      let a:tag = input("Tag: ")
      normal `>
      exe "normal a</" . a:tag . ">"
      normal `<
      exe "normal i<" . a:tag . ">"
  endfunction
  -->

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Re:Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim by pkrumins on Monday December 08, 2008 @09:18AM (#389846)

This plugin does not define 'stp'. You must be using some other plugin that has this mapping.

The plugin I wrote about wraps HTML around perfectly. Try:

    ysiWt<p>

Or if you knew the tag you were going to wrap your "Hello!" in, then in insert mode you could have pressed:

    <CTRL+s>t<p>.

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Re:Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim by thomasmallen on Monday December 08, 2008 @09:31AM (#389856)

No, the plugin does define stp.

  :help Surround

The pattern you have there ("ysiWtp", < is unnecessary, as is >) is actually not thoroughly tested (as mentioned in the docs) and is used when not in a visual selection. In a visual selection, you use "s" followed by what you want to surround with, e.g. s"

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Re:Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim by pkrumins on Monday December 08, 2008 @09:40AM (#389864)

You must have a different surround.vim script. Perhaps someone else wrote a script and called "surround.vim" as well.

The one I am talking about does not define stp and requires < > between tags.

What does your 'stp' do?

Edit: I see what you did there. You were in visual mode!

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Re:Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim by thomasmallen on Monday December 08, 2008 @09:50AM (#389872)

Of course. surround.vim couldn't get away with clobbering "s" in normal mode.

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Re:Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim by pkrumins on Monday December 08, 2008 @09:54AM (#389877)

this works for me:

  viwstp>

turns

foo

into

  <p>foo</p>

Edit: (30 mins later) Now I understood fully what was happening. ;)

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