mini-surround.md

Fast and feature-rich surround actions

• Add, delete, replace, find, highlight surrounding (like pair of parenthesis, quotes, etc.).
• Supports dot-repeat, v:count, different search methods, "last"/"next" extended mappings, customization via Lua patterns or functions, and more.
• Has builtins for brackets, function call, tag, user prompt, and any alphanumeric/punctuation/whitespace character.
• Has maintained configuration of setup similar to 'tpope/vim-surround'.

See more details in Features and help file.

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⦿ See the repository page to learn about common design principles and configuration recipes.

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Demo

demo-surround.mp4

Features

• Actions (all of them are dot-repeatable out of the box and respect v:count for searching surrounding) with configurable keymappings:
  • Add surrounding with sa (in visual mode or on motion).
  • Delete surrounding with sd.
  • Replace surrounding with sr.
  • Find surrounding with sf or sF (move cursor right or left).
  • Highlight surrounding with sh.
  • Change number of neighbor lines with sn (see |MiniSurround-algorithm|).
• Surrounding is identified by a single character as both "input" (in delete and replace start, find, and highlight) and "output" (in add and replace end):
  • 'f' - function call (string of alphanumeric symbols or '_' or '.' followed by balanced '()'). In "input" finds function call, in "output" prompts user to enter function name.
  • 't' - tag. In "input" finds tag with same identifier, in "output" prompts user to enter tag name.
  • All symbols in brackets '()', '[]', '{}', '<>". In "input' represents balanced brackets (open - with whitespace pad, close - without), in "output" - left and right parts of brackets.
  • '?' - interactive. Prompts user to enter left and right parts.
  • All other alphanumeric, punctuation, or space characters represent surrounding with identical left and right parts.
• Configurable search methods to find not only covering but possibly next, previous, or nearest surrounding. See more in help for MiniSurround.config.
• All actions involving finding surrounding (delete, replace, find, highlight) can be used with suffix that changes search method to find previous/last. See more in help for MiniSurround.config.

Installation

This plugin can be installed as part of 'mini.nvim' library (recommended) or as a standalone Git repository.

There are two branches to install from:

• main (default, recommended) will have latest development version of plugin. All changes since last stable release should be perceived as being in beta testing phase (meaning they already passed alpha-testing and are moderately settled).
• stable will be updated only upon releases with code tested during public beta-testing phase in main branch.

Here are code snippets for some common installation methods (use only one):

With mini.deps

Github repo	Branch	Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library	Main	Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation
	Stable
Standalone plugin	Main	add('echasnovski/mini.surround')
	Stable	add({ source = 'echasnovski/mini.surround', checkout = 'stable' })

With folke/lazy.nvim

Github repo	Branch	Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library	Main	{ 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = false },
	Stable	{ 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = '*' },
Standalone plugin	Main	{ 'echasnovski/mini.surround', version = false },
	Stable	{ 'echasnovski/mini.surround', version = '*' },

With junegunn/vim-plug

Github repo	Branch	Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library	Main	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim'
	Stable	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', { 'branch': 'stable' }
Standalone plugin	Main	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.surround'
	Stable	Plug 'echasnovski/mini.surround', { 'branch': 'stable' }

Important: don't forget to call require('mini.surround').setup() to enable its functionality.

Note: if you are on Windows, there might be problems with too long file paths (like error: unable to create file <some file name>: Filename too long). Try doing one of the following:

• Enable corresponding git global config value: git config --system core.longpaths true. Then try to reinstall.
• Install plugin in other place with shorter path.

Default config

-- No need to copy this inside `setup()`. Will be used automatically.
{
  -- Add custom surroundings to be used on top of builtin ones. For more
  -- information with examples, see `:h MiniSurround.config`.
  custom_surroundings = nil,

  -- Duration (in ms) of highlight when calling `MiniSurround.highlight()`
  highlight_duration = 500,

  -- Module mappings. Use `''` (empty string) to disable one.
  mappings = {
    add = 'sa', -- Add surrounding in Normal and Visual modes
    delete = 'sd', -- Delete surrounding
    find = 'sf', -- Find surrounding (to the right)
    find_left = 'sF', -- Find surrounding (to the left)
    highlight = 'sh', -- Highlight surrounding
    replace = 'sr', -- Replace surrounding
    update_n_lines = 'sn', -- Update `n_lines`

    suffix_last = 'l', -- Suffix to search with "prev" method
    suffix_next = 'n', -- Suffix to search with "next" method
  },

  -- Number of lines within which surrounding is searched
  n_lines = 20,

  -- Whether to respect selection type:
  -- - Place surroundings on separate lines in linewise mode.
  -- - Place surroundings on each line in blockwise mode.
  respect_selection_type = false,

  -- How to search for surrounding (first inside current line, then inside
  -- neighborhood). One of 'cover', 'cover_or_next', 'cover_or_prev',
  -- 'cover_or_nearest', 'next', 'prev', 'nearest'. For more details,
  -- see `:h MiniSurround.config`.
  search_method = 'cover',

  -- Whether to disable showing non-error feedback
  -- This also affects (purely informational) helper messages shown after
  -- idle time if user input is required.
  silent = false,
}

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