Ask HN: Text Editor with “add prefix/suffix around selected text” feature?

Morning all.

I'm looking for a lightweight text editor to write (words not code) with. I love PyCharm's system for adding quotes or parentheses around highlighted/selected blocks of text. I don't want to use a full IDE for personal writing though. So...

Can anyone:

- name this feature?

- recommend a lightweight text editor that does this?

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h2odragon 3y ago ↗

Unhelpful answer: emacs `replace-regexp` can do this.

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/50220/emacs-replac...

tomsmeding 3y ago ↗

Vim can do this with the following plugin: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

I exclusively use the visual mode commands though, because I find the normal-mode commands confusing.

hairofadog 3y ago ↗

I don't know if it meets your definition of lightweight, but Obsidian does this. https://obsidian.md

shanebellone 3y ago ↗

This looks like a potential solution. I'll definitely test this out. Thanks for the link!

shanebellone 3y ago ↗

I love Obsidian! Great recommendation.