When surrounding a block of text, the desired output is often to have the surround text on new lines.

Ex:

markdown
code
block

->

```
markdown
code
block
```

Right now we implicitly assume that the "around" tokens don't introduce new lines, but this isn't guaranteed. Our algorithm for updating the selection after insertion needs to be improved to handle this.

When no word is selected, it could be useful to select the current word by default.

Dear @abingham,

Please publish this extension to the Open VSX marketplace.

Context

Unfortunately, as Microsoft prohibits usages of the Microsoft marketplace by any other products or redistribution of .vsix files from it, in order to use VS Code extensions in non-Microsoft products, we kindly ask that you take ownership of the VS Code extension namespace in Open VSX and publish this extension on Open VSX.

What is Open VSX? Why does it exist?

Open VSX is a vendor neutral alternative to the MS marketplace used by most other derivatives of VS Code like VSCodium, Gitpod, OpenVSCode, Theia-based IDEs, and so on.

You can read on about Open VSX at the Eclipse Foundation's Open VSX FAQ.

How can you publish to Open VSX?

The docs to publish an extension can be found here. This process is straightforward and shouldn't take too long. Essentially, you need an authentication token and to execute the ovsx publish command to publish your extension. There's also a doc explaining the whole process with an example GitHub Action workflow.

If we have a line with two items we want to surround:

item_1 item_2 -> "item_1" "item_2"

The selection on the first word will be kept, but not the other one on the second word (who should be pushed by 3).

The issue also appear when trying to surround a word by multiple char (ex: """)

Maybe out of scope for this extension, but this seems like the next step.

I'll try to contribute to the extension when i'll have some free time :)