Surround “with function”?

[wolf]

I'm just learning Helix. I'm an experienced software engineer and long-time Vim/NeoVim user. Using the surround facility inside Helix, I don't see the ability to surround the selection with a function, as one can with the surround plug-in in Vim/NeoVim. I searched far and wide for issues, discussions, info on the web, and elsewhere, but didn't find anything.

• Did I just miss it (either the feature or the discussion)?
• Is it something the project maintainers (or perhaps the community) explicitly don't want?
• Is it something they might want but haven't gotten around to yet (or maybe there are challenges I don't know about. I saw concerns about multi-char surround problems.)?
• If it is doable, would it be helpful if I supplied a patch/PR?
• I use this quite a bit in Vim/NeoVim. Is that unusual?

I'm not trying to bend Helix to my will, or worse, turn Helix into Vim! Just trying to (most of all) understand, be helpful, and maybe scratch an itch.

[nik-rev]

surround selection with function

1. add parentheses around selection: ms(
2. go into insert mode at the beginning of the selection: i
3. type the name of the function

if it's too long you can make a macro like this

[editor.keys.normal]
"L" = "@ms(i"

[wolf]

Keystroke by keystroke, that makes pretty good sense, especially given the statement I think I read in the "Vision" doc about Helix not being about "playing editor golf", but about being easy to use. Thank you!