How would you surround the following text with 3 backticks ``` using tpope's Vim Surround.
All I can is 1 backtick using S` in visual mode:
Surround Visual Text with more than 1 character
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This is not what you asked but this can be done without surround:
(from visual mode)
c
```
<C-r>"
```
<Esc>
See :help ctrl-r.
Define a custom surround:
(Insert following in your .vimrc or file specific config ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/markdown.vim )
" Custom surrounds
let b:surround_{char2nr('c')} = "```\r```"
now visual select and Sc will give you desired surround.
Or use a snippet solution; for example using Ultisnips define a snippet like so:
snippet code
\`\`\`${1}
${0:${VISUAL}}
\`\`\`
endsnippet
now visual select your desired lines then hit snippet expansion key ( mine is Tab ) type code and hit Tab again. that's it.
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