How do I add, change, or delete surrounding characters with vim-surround?

Explanation

The vim-surround plugin by Tim Pope adds commands for working with surrounding characters like quotes, brackets, and tags.

How it works

• cs"' changes double quotes to single quotes
• ds" deletes surrounding double quotes
• ysiw" adds double quotes around a word
• yss" adds quotes around the entire line

Example

Starting with "Hello world":

• cs"' changes to 'Hello world'
• ds' removes quotes: Hello world
• ysiw" on Hello: "Hello" world

Tips

• S" in visual mode wraps the selection in quotes
• cs"<p> changes quotes to <p> tags
• Works with (, {, [, ", ', `, and HTML tags
• cst" changes surrounding tags to quotes
• Install: Plug 'tpope/vim-surround'