LazyVim/Q/How can I surround the visual selection with backticks in a markdown document?

• How can I surround the visual selection with backticks in a LazyVim markdown document?

  • AI Answer

    • AI/Response
      • Short answer: Enable the mini-surround coding extra (:LazyExtras), then in Visual mode select the text and press gsa followed by the backtick key.

      • Enabling the extra

        • LazyVim does not bundle mini.surround in its core plugins; it ships as an opt-in extra at lua/lazyvim/plugins/extras/coding/mini-surround.lua, built on nvim-mini/mini.surround.
        • Enable it via :LazyExtras, selecting coding.mini-surround, or by adding { import = "lazyvim.plugins.extras.coding.mini-surround" } to the lazy.nvim setup spec.

      • Visual-mode workflow

        • 1. Enter Visual mode (v, V, or Ctrl-v) and select the target text.
        • 2. Press gsa (LazyVim's default add mapping — vanilla mini.surround instead maps this to sa).
        • 3. Type the delimiter character, ` , to wrap the selection: `text` .

      • Other default mappings from the extra

        • gsd — delete a surrounding.
        • gsr — replace a surrounding.
        • gsf / gsF — find the surrounding to the right / left.
        • gsh — highlight a surrounding.
        • These sit under the gs ("surround") which-key group that LazyVim registers even before the extra is enabled.
      • Answer/Official from mini.surround add mapping source: add = "gsa", -- Add surrounding in Normal and Visual modes.