What Vim command(s) can be used to quote/unquote words?

Question

How can I quickly quote/unquote words and change quoting (e.g. from \' to \") in Vim? I know about the surround.vim plugin, but I would like to use

Answer 1

For users of VSCodeVim you can do

vwS"

• You can replace " with whatever you would like to wrap by.
• You can replace w with any other selection operator

Answer 2

Visual mode map example to add single quotes around a selected block of text:

:vnoremap qq <Esc>`>a'<Esc>`<i'<Esc>

Answer 3

I don't know any builtin vim command for this, but using r"f'r" to change from ' to " and r'f"r' to change from " to ' works if you stand on the first ' or ". The command r' replaces whatever character is under your cursor with ', and f" moves you forward to the next ".

Answer 4

In addition to the other commands, this will enclose all words in a line in double quotes (as per your comment)

:s/\(\S\+\)/"\1"/

or if you want to reduce the number of backslashes, you can put a \v (very-magic) modifier at the start of the pattern

:s/\v(\S+)/"\1"/