[Feature Request] Surround a selection with brackets and quotes

[sergeniously]

In all modern and self-respecting IDEs (aka VSCode, CLion, etc) there is a feature that surrounds a selected text with brackets or quotes when you type an opening bracket or quote: (, {, [, <, ", '. It is an extremely useful feature for those people who value their time.

I would say it is the only thing I'm missing in Eclipse since Eclipse CDT has a Bug 431534 in its Surround with... feature which prepends unwanted spaces for ${word_selection} and so that can be considered as inapplicable.

[jonahgraham]

Thanks for the feature request. Do you know if any other language plug-ins in Eclipse ecosystem has such a feature? For example if JDT has it already it is much easier to just migrate that implementation to CDT.

self-respecting IDEs

I think Eclipse IDE is a self-respecting IDE :-)

[sergeniously]

I've checked JDT and PDT and unfortunately they don't have the feature.
Maybe it would be better implement it in the general TextEditor base class so that every Eclipse plugin will automatically support the feature.
I think it is a good idea since, for example, VSCode behaves exactly this way - it works in every kind of text editors.

[jonahgraham]

Can you submit a feature request to Eclipse Platform UI? That is where the base classes for editors come from. I suspect that even if the implementation is added there some work needs to be done in CDT to enable it but I am curious to see what happens.

[sergeniously]

Done. Thank you for your attention.