Bob Vim Surround

Bob Vim Surround adds Vim-style surround editing to Obsidian.

Plugin facts¶

Registered commands¶

This plugin registers no command palette commands.

Operators and delimiters¶

Bob Vim Surround adds ys motions, cs changes, ds deletes, and dot-repeat through Obsidian's Vim emulation layer. Every visible, single-UTF-16-code-unit letter, number, punctuation character, or symbol works as a surround key.

The standard bracket aliases keep vim-surround padding behavior; all other accepted characters are symmetric delimiters. Symmetric delimiters are discovered as sequential pairs of maximal same-line runs around the cursor, and paired runs must have equal lengths. Delimiter runs inside the content can make pairs ambiguous; the plugin intentionally does not attempt nested parsing. cs replaces both complete matched runs with the requested pair, while each ds removes one delimiter from each side.

Whitespace, controls and navigation keys, modifier chords, composition and dead keys, combining marks, and multi-code-unit characters such as emoji are not accepted as surround keys.

Settings¶

This plugin adds no settings tab, registers no palette commands, and reads no per-plugin settings. Its operators live entirely in the Vim keymap.

Related¶

• Bob Navigation Hotkeys — the plugin that owns the \s Vim mapping; surround uses the ys/cs/ds operators and claims no backslash mapping.