Cannot use vim-surround

[lunarvim]

Cannot use vim-surround

[saimonmoore]

Has anyone got this to work? I've always used vim-surround in vim and badly miss it. I'm trying out lunarvim but there's no way to get it to work properly.

I tried out your suggestion @rosborn . Didn't have any effect. (I'm trying to do cs"')

@ChristianChiarulli not sure if this is high on your todolist but would appreciate any pointers that helps me understand the underlying issue so I can maybe debug it myself.

Also tried a number of suggestions from here: #1525 to no avail.

[fairulazmin]

Thanks @pviniciusfm. I changed the timeoutlen to 1000 and it works perfectly fine.

[pviniciusfm]

@fairulazmin In my case, it was caused by this property https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/nvim/blob/master/general/settings.vim#L35 after I increased it everything worked fine.

[rebuilt]

@martisj specifying the keys attribute makes it so vim-surround does not start when neovim starts. Instead, it will be lazy loaded until certain keys are pressed. I've found it to be more reliable to not lazy load vim-surround.

{ "tpope/vim-surround" },

This is my complete config if you're curious. https://github.com/rebuilt/lvim/blob/master/lua/user/plugins.lua

I've updated the docs to remove the lazy loading statement.

[ChristianChiarulli]

I don't think I have vim surround working right now. I'll leave this open until I fix it.

[sundy-li]

@fairulazmin Yes, it works, but space leader key cause too much time to respond.
I have tried many times(binary search), and I decide to change it to 285, which is suit for my speed...

[martisj]

Do I need to include all the keys that vim-surround supports for this to work?
I have

  {
    "tpope/vim-surround",
    keys = { 'd', 'c', 'y' },
  },

and set timeoutlen? is set to 2000.
However ysiw" does not work in normal mode. I expect it to surround the current inner word with ".

[riolly]

Me too have this issue. Is it because I using WSL2?

[ChristianChiarulli]

tracking solution to issue here: liuchengxu/vim-which-key#158

[rafamadriz]

Closing because of inactivity.

[rosborn]

Encountered this same problem. The fix that worked for me was setting keys properly when loading the plugin. For some reason this page suggests the wrong mapping for keys. Here is the correct mapping which should give you the behavior you are looking for.

 keys = {
  { 'n', 'ds' },
  { 'n', 'cs' },
  { 'n', 'cS' },
  { 'n', 'ys' },
  { 'n', 'yS' },
  { 'n', 'yss' },
  { 'n', 'ySs' },
  { 'n', 'ySS' },
  { 'x', 'S' },
  { 'x', 'gS' },
  { 'i', '<C-S>' },
  { 'i', '<C-G>s' },
  { 'i', '<C-G>S' }
}

[ryudice]

It worked for me for some time with @rosborn suggestion, but now it's not working again. It's a shame because everything else works so well.

[rebuilt]

Earlier versions of Lunarvim had timeoutlen set very low. This made it impossible to type out all the vim-surround keybinds within the specified time. I'm not sure which version of Lunarvim you're using but check your timeoutlen with:

set timeoutlen? 

The default is 1000 which gives you 1 second to type everything out.

You can set the timeoutlen with:

vim.opt.timeoutlen = 1000

[ryudice]

I have already set it to that unfortunately, and no luck

[saimonmoore]

That does work for me (occasionally). I'll play with it some more.

[saimonmoore]

(I set it to 2000)

[lucasgit13]

I was getting the same issue and after setting timeoutlen = 300, everything is working now even netrw.

[martisj]

Can someone share their working lvim config? I simply can't get vim-surround to work.

[martisj]

@martisj specifying the keys attribute makes it so vim-surround does not start when neovim starts. Instead, it will be lazy loaded until certain keys are pressed. I've found it to be more reliable to not lazy load vim-surround.

{ "tpope/vim-surround" },

This is my complete config if you're curious. rebuilt/lvim@master/lua/user/plugins.lua

I've updated the docs to remove the lazy loading statement.

Thank you so much for sharing! Turns out, removing keys was all that was needed. The plugin was not installed with keys in my config 🤔 No wonder it didn't work 😅