Commands to change pairs

[cute-jumper]

Do you plan to add commands to change pairs? Evil-surround has a similar change function inherited from surround.vim. Smartparens are good at inserting/manipulating pairs, would it be better if pair changing commands are also supported?

[Fuco1]

sp-rewrap-sexp :)

Do you plan to add commands to change pairs? Evil-surround has a similar change function inherited from surround.vim. Smartparens are good at inserting/manipulating pairs, would it be better if pair changing commands are also supported?

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[cute-jumper]

Thanks. I'm not aware of this before. But it is not possible to choose what to be replaced. For example, if the cursor is in the middle of foo, it is impossible to use sp-rewrap-sexp to achieve:

("foo") => ["foo"]

Maybe it be better to have a more general sp-rewrap-sexp?

[Fuco1]

Could be. How would you imagine it should work? I don't know vim nor surround.

[cute-jumper]

Just prompt the user for two inputs, one for the old surrounding pair, and the other for the new surrounding pair, and then find the nearest old surrounding pair and replace it with the new pair.

M-x our-rewrap-command, then ( and [, we could achieve(| is the cursor location)

(("fo|o" bar) baz) => (["fo|o" bar] baz)

Maybe you can look at evil-surround.

EDIT: Fix missing link.

[derikson]

Perhaps while the prompt is active, the pair being changed could be highlighted, and the keybindings C-f and C-b could move between them.

[cute-jumper]

FWIW, I implemented embrace (and evil-embrace) myself based on expand-region to achieve something similar.