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Notepad++: How to wrap selected text in brackets, parenthesis, quotes?

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Mar 15, 202620679 views
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I'm used to textmate and I'm looking for an editor on Windows that supports this. Notepad++ seems cool, but I when I have some text selected and type an opening bracket it replaces the text with the bracket instead of wrapping it inside brackets. Can this be enabled somehow ?

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I am just using notepad++ as "glorified text editor" for editing text (i.e. no coding), but in order to quickly wrap text in brackets or delete such brackets, I recorded and saved to macros: (i) cut marked text, then insert open and close parenthesi…

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