Add vim-surround like shortcuts to Obsidian

I installed the Obsidian Vimrc support plugin to add better keyboard shortcuts for quickly surrounding selected text with parentheses - () .

Create and add the following to your custom .vimrc file (the plugin defaults to .obsidian.vimrc):

exmap surround_wiki surround [ ](%20)
exmap surround_double_quotes surround " "
exmap surround_single_quotes surround ' '
exmap surround_backticks surround ` `
exmap surround_brackets surround ( )
exmap surround_square_brackets surround [ ]
exmap surround_curly_brackets surround { }
 
" NOTE: must use 'map' and not 'nmap'
map [[ :surround_wiki
nunmap s
vunmap s
map s" :surround_double_quotes
map s' :surround_single_quotes
map s` :surround_backticks
map sb :surround_brackets
map s( :surround_brackets
map s) :surround_brackets
map s[ :surround_square_brackets
map s[ :surround_square_brackets
map s{ :surround_curly_brackets
map s} :surround_curly_brackets

Usage:

• position cursor anywhere on a word in normal vim mode and type s( for parenthesis [[ for double brackets (special case), etc. See the above mappings for details.