Re: surround a visual block with character(s)

On 23:20 Sun 28 Oct , Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2012-10-28, Chris Lott wrote:
> > What's the most efficient way to visually select a block of text and
> > append/prepend a character or more?
> >
> > In other words, I often want convert this:
> >
> > blah blah foo foo
> >
> > to
> >
> > "blah blah foo foo"
> >
> > I assume there are plugins that help with this kind of thing, for
> > which suggestions are welcome, but I'm curious how to do this most
> > efficiently without them.
>
> The way I would do that without using a plugin would be visually
> select the block, then type
>
> s"<C-R>1"<Esc>
>
> where <C-R> means Ctrl-R. That will substitute the current
> selection with a ", the original selected text from the 1 register,
> and another ".
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
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I like that! With visual area less than one line one has to use the
- register.

Best,
Marcin

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