How do I create cursors around a selection?

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Let’s say I have code that looks like this:

echo hello world

Lets say that I highlight/select the hello world part. How do I then put two cursors like this?

echo hello world
     ^          ^

That way all I have to do is i"<esc> and I’ll end up with:

echo "hello world"

If I use <a-S>i"<esc> then I’ll end up with almost what I want:

echo "hello worl"d

Edit: fixing typo
Edit: adding with <a-S> doesn’t work for this

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Did you know that you can use a to append to the end of a selection? This comes in handy with a comma separated list because you can split to select each item and quote them simultaneously. Or use different text for begin and end like braces.

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Yep! This is pretty nifty for the reasons you mentioned. What I’m really curious is for a behavior almost like what <a-S> does. I’ll update my main post to explain why <a-S> doesn’t work.

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You were almost there:
exec -draft L <a-S> i '"' <esc>
For surround-like plugins search kak mirror or kak surround on github.

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