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Alonso Serrano
15,341 PointsIs there a shortcut in Atom for wrapping selected text with quotes?
I love the cmd + / shortcut to comment things out. Is there something similar but for turning things into strings?
I know Atom is "hackable". How would you go about adding this?
Thanks!
john larson
16,594 Points:D
1 Answer
john larson
16,594 PointsWhy, yes there is! Highlight the string by double clicking it, then hit the quotes. It will wrap the string in "" or '' whatever you chose. To highlight a whole line instead of one word, you can
- double click and then click again, it will highlight that line, or
- click the beginning of where you want to start, hold shift and then click where you want to end.
- Hit the quotes. It will wrap the highlighted area with the quotes
- I use it all the time, it's very handy :D
- it also works for wrapping things in parenthesis, curly braces and brackets
Alonso Serrano
15,341 PointsYES! This is amazing! So useful! Thanks a lot!
Mike Hickman
19,817 PointsHoly crap. I know and use a ton of shortcuts, but never knew this. WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS?! Thanks for the great answer.
john larson
16,594 Pointsjohn larson
16,594 PointsHitting the quotes while text is highlighted works in a lot of good editors. Atom, Sublime, Brackets, Not notepad + though . Well it kinda works in notepad+, it's really convoluted though.