txt.wrap - wrap selected text in %symbols%

[davebrny]

wrap selected text in %symbols% using a two stage hotkey

alt + w then " ...will wrap selected text like this: "quotes"
alt + w then % ...will wrap selected text like: %parenthesis% and so on

you can add your own custom text to the ini section at the top of the file. the format is:

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key character = left-wrap TXT right-wrap

check out the readme for more about the settings and some wrap examples



related scripts:
txt.swap - interactively swap text at a certain character or word
txt.replace - interactively replace a character with another

[guest3456]

for any programmer, these hotkeys are essential.

luckily for me, my text editor (Vim) lets me do this with a simple plugin:
https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

vimscript code is pretty rough to understand. but you might look there for some inspiration. it has other features that you may want to implement, such as delete wrapping and change/swap:

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Details follow on the exact semantics, but first, consider the following
examples.  An asterisk (*) is used to denote the cursor position.

  Old text                  Command     New text ~
  "Hello *world!"           ds"         Hello world!
  [123+4*56]/2              cs])        (123+456)/2
  "Look ma, I'm *HTML!"     cs"<q>      <q>Look ma, I'm HTML!</q>
  if *x>3 {                 ysW(        if ( x>3 ) {
  my $str = *whee!;         vllllS'     my $str = 'whee!';

so for example, Vim lets me just type in which surrounder i want to use. when my cursor is inside a word, i just type ysiw% and my word is wrapped in %%s. perhaps you could use AHKs Input command to do something similar, that way you dont have to rely on memory. like, have a global hotkey alt+2 and then press the char you want to wrap with. so something like Alt+2 followed by "

good job

[davebrny]

sublime text does a good few of these as well, which i mostly use when programming since it doesnt need to use the clipboard. i mostly use these hotkeys when editing text elsewhere, or when using markdown online or using the quotes to narrow down searches or whatever.

perhaps you could use AHKs Input command to do something similar

thats a great idea. less hotkeys to remember and you dont have to set up the characters before hand

vimscript code is pretty rough to understand

its a bit hard on the eyes at first but it started to make sense after i read it a few times
thats a really cool ability to have though. dam maybe ill take a look at vim after all. ... someday haha

[davebrny]

i wrote this again from "the ground up", or whatever the current buzzword is this week. it now uses a 2 stage hotkey (credit to @guest3456 for that idea!) so there is less setup needed before hand... just press alt + w and then the character you want wrapped

if you want different characters on either side then they can be added to the ini section at the top of the file

gist: txt.wrap.ahk

(i didnt add the hotstring feature this time around as i didnt use it that much in the end, but the original script can still be found here if anyone is still interested in that part)

[guest3456]

thumbsup

[jeeswg]

This is interesting, here is a list of hotkeys that I use for various text wrapping/unwrapping. I press the hotkey to toggle:

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^#2:: ;enclose in characters "" [MAIN]
^+2:: ;enclose in characters ""
^#':: ;enclose in characters ""
^+':: ;enclose in characters ""
^4:: ;enclose in characters $$ (for LaTeX)
^5:: ;enclose in characters %% (for AutoHotkey)
^8:: ;enclose in characters ** (for emphasis/search wildcards)
^9:: ;enclose in characters () [MAIN]
^0:: ;enclose in characters () [MAIN]
^[:: ;enclose in characters {} [MAIN]
^]:: ;enclose in characters {} [MAIN]
^+[:: ;enclose in characters [] 
^+]:: ;enclose in characters []
#[:: ;enclose in characters []
#]:: ;enclose in characters []
^#[:: ;enclose in characters [] [MAIN]
^#]:: ;enclose in characters [] [MAIN]
^':: ;enclose in characters ''
#k:: ;enclose in characters <kbd></kbd> (for Stack Overflow)

;I use an InputBox menu/hotstrings for:
;[url]text[/url] ;BBCode
;<!-- text --> ;html
;[quote]text[/quote] ;BBCode
;[c]text[/c] ;BBCode
;[code]text[ /code] ;BBCode [space added to '/code' to display this properly on the forum]
;std::cout << text << std::endl; ;C++
;;text ;comments [prepend characters e.g. semicolons]

;I don't currently do anything for:
;<text>