How to wrap selected code in brackets/parentheses in Visual Studio 2022
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In VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, when you select (highlight) a snippet of code and press an opening key for brackets ({ or [) or parentheses ((), it wraps the selected text. Visual Studio, however, deletes the selected snippet, or better, replaces it by the pressed character. Is there a way to configure it to the more intelligent behaviour of VS Code and JetBrains? I browsed "Text Editor" settings but didn't find any that seemed to do this: enter image description here

Gantz answered 8/11, 2022 at 13:51 Comment(3)
Send a feedback suggestion so the product team prioritizes this higher! It's currently not available in plain VS.Forsterite
Did it, thank you. What a shame for VS...Gantz
In version 17.4.4 Professional this is on by default - and I want to turn it off. I have not found a setting for it.Prepossession

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