Keybind to add cursors on both ends of a selection

[ghost]

It would be nice to have a feature of "surrounding cursors".

Kind of like a fusion of ms (surround add) and C (spawn cursor below).

I think this would also fit Helix's overall philosophy of embracing multiple cursors.

[EpocSquadron]

Can you be a little more specific? Are you looking to select only the surrounding braces but nothing between? This is the default behavior in normal mode if you use mm with the cursor on one of the braces, but I could see cases where you would want to select only braces while the current selection is between them.

[ghost]

Well, mm goes to the matching delimiter. What I would like to do is:

• select a passage of text using x or v (let's say the selection is "lorem ipsum")
• press <new keybinding>
• now I have two cursors before and after the selection: "<CURSOR>lorem ipsum<CURSOR>"

This would basically allow more involved surrounded editing than the m commands alone are currently able to.

[sudormrfbin]

I've changed the title to be a bit more descriptive, hopefully still describing what you meant.

[ghost]

@sudormrfbin yes, thanks :)

[stonewareslord]

Would this type of implementation work for you? I have been working on Kakoune's (<a-S>)[https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/pages/keys.asciidoc] keybinding

Orig:

After <A-S>:

Then you could grab your whole object with ma( and select the () with <A-S>

Code: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/compare/master...stonewareslord:feature/select-head-and-anchor?expand=1

[kirawi]

Rejected in #9459