Surround Visual Text with more than 1 character

Question

How would you surround the following text with 3 backticks ``` using tpope's Vim Surround.

All I can is 1 backtick using S` in visual mode:

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '17 at 22:32

9

This is not what you asked but this can be done without surround:

(from visual mode)
c
```
<C-r>"
```
<Esc>

See :help ctrl-r.

answered Nov 20 '17 at 22:32

romainl

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '17 at 21:36

Define a custom surround:

(Insert following in your .vimrc or file specific config ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/markdown.vim )

" Custom surrounds
let b:surround_{char2nr('c')} = "```\r```"

now visual select and Sc will give you desired surround.

Or use a snippet solution; for example using Ultisnips define a snippet like so:

snippet code
\`\`\`${1}
${0:${VISUAL}}
\`\`\`
endsnippet

now visual select your desired lines then hit snippet expansion key ( mine is Tab ) type code and hit Tab again. that's it.

Nice one @dNitro - Will accept this as this is using Vim Surround. Though romainl answer was really good tool — Mick, Nov 21 '17 at 01:08

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 30 '17 at 14:12

Here another ultisnips solution.

snippet code "add backtics codes" w
`!v repeat(nr2char(96),3)` ${1:markdown}
${0:${VISUAL:type here}}
`!v repeat(nr2char(96),3)`
endsnippet

If you do not want "markdown" after the first line just get rid of it. I am showing this solution only to show how to avoid backslashing so much.

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