Improvement ideas

[BreyerW]

Im opening this issue following devblog announcement of this experiment. I already wrote few ideas there but since devblog comments section is quickly forgotten i decided to copy these ideas here:

YES! Ever since i switched from monodevelop to visual studio i wished for something like this. That was about a decadde ago by then monodevelop had this already built-in. Yes VS has Surround With command but thats clunky to use compared to this. I tried to make custom key combo for this command but from what i remember (i attempted this almost decade ago so my memory is fuzzy) you couldnt bind this command to just two keys like Shift + ” it had to be 3 keys at once making it too annoying to use.

BTW consider adding support for surround with multiline comment characters with Shift or Alt pressed. Eg for C# pressing Shift (or Alt) + / would produce /**/ (thats how it worked in monodevelop if memory serves right), for Python Shift + ” produces “”” “”” etc. I suggest adding extra key for comment characters specifically to disambiguate for languages that have such ambiguities like Python.

I think out of all surround variants i would use comment one the most cause when im debugging i often want to temporarily disable multiline sections of code

Edit:

Or maybe generalize feature by always requiring selection + Shift + any character. When i say any character i mean it. Dont limit this extension to select few characters like now. Then producing multiline comments for C# would be as simple as making selection once, holding shift and typing /* for Python it would be 3x ” etc. Experience will be slighty worse than current one but generalization i believe is easily worth slight inconvenience of holding shift (or Alt maybe if Shift would be blocking too many combos)