priyanshu92/surroundselection

This is a visual studio extension which lets you quickly wrap the selected text with double quotes, single quotes, braces etc..

Surround Selection

🚨Project Archived: This functionality is now natively available in Visual Studio🚨

Download this extension from the VS Gallery or get the CI build.

---

The quickest way to wrap some selected text with various delimiters like double quotes, single quotes, braces etc.

See the change log for changes and road map.

Features

Toggle wrapping of selected text in visual studio with:

• Double Quotes " "
• Single Quotes ' '
• Braces { }
• Parentheses ( )
• Square Brackets [ ]
• Angular Brackets < >
• Asterisk * *
• Multiline Comment /* */
• Hash # #

Steps to use

Select any text in Visual Studio and right click.

Then select Surround Selection With and then select the option you want eg. Double Quotes to get the text wrapped around that.

Hotkeys

Action	Hotkey
Double Quotes	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+'
Asterisk	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+*
Angular Brackets	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+<
Hash	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+#
Parentheses	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+(
Square Brackets	Ctrl+[, Ctrl+[
Curly Braces	Ctrl+K, Ctrl+{

---

For cloning and building this project yourself, make sure to install the Extensibility Tools 2015 extension for Visual Studio which enables some features used by this project.

License

Apache 2.0

surroundselection's Issues

Update to Work with Visual Studio 2022

This extension slated to be updated for 2022?;)

Option to make it work like Sublime and Visual Code

Description

Please add an option to make it work like Sublime and Visual Code does, meaning just pressing the ( key to surround the current selection with parenthesis and if there is nothing selected just creates the 2 characters () with the caret in the middle of them, or if not possible just put (.

Plus the very same feature for the other characters (", {, ')

Thanks.

Intellisense automatically replaces selection

Installed product versions

• Visual Studio: VS Community 2017
• This extension: 2.0.3

Description

As an example, if you select "Format" in String.Format(), then add parenthesis it turns to String.(FormatException)()
There will be rare cases where this is undesired behavior and I wish there was an option to be able to bypass intellisense when using the extension

Steps to recreate

1. Select "Format" in String.Format()
2. Press Ctrl + K, Ctrl+(

Current behavior

Turns to String.(FormatException)()

Expected behavior

Turns to String.(Format)()

Inserts extra tabs, screwing up formatting

Installed product versions

Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

Description

Great idea, but doesn't work right. I wanted this to wrap sections of code in curly brackets to limit scope. Instead of simply inserting curly brackets at beginning and end of selected block (with correct indentation), this tool completely messes up the formatting in the selected block by inserting a whole lot of extra tabs; the text is seemingly randomly pushed far to the right.

Steps to recreate

Select block of code; apply this tool (with curly brackets).

Current behavior

Inserts brackets in wrong places; adds a bunch of extra tabs that mess up formatting.

Expected behavior

With selected block of code, insert brackets { and } before and after selected block, correctly indenting text of selected block. Example final result:

{
    //Stuff
    const int foo = 42;
    EetMoarChikkin(foo);
}

Undo after applying surround is not working correctly

Installed product versions

• Visual Studio: 2019 Community
• This extension: 2.0.3

Description

Undo after applying surround is not working correctly

Steps to recreate

1. Select text in code ditor
2. Hit Ctrl+K, Ctrl+[ to surround with {} braces
3. Hit Ctrl+Z to do Undo

Current behavior

It does not return to previous state, even worse it changes already written text.

Expected behavior

It should return the code to exactly same state as before applying the surround, in one step.