Is it possible in Eclipse to highlight a statement, and then press quotes/etc.. to "wrap" the highlighted text in the character (like in SublimeText)?

Question

I'm coming from Sublime Text to Eclipse. One of my favorite feature of ST is highlighting a piece of text, and then being able to wrap it in quotations or parenthesis by pressing the appropriate key.

That probably poorly explains the functionality, so here's a gif example:

So, as you can see, if you highlight a piece of text, and then, in this example, press ( it will wrap the highlighted text in parenthesis.

When I try this in Eclipse, highlighting the text, and then pressing ( simply replaces what I highlighted rather than wrapping it up.

Is there a way to get this functionality inside of Eclipse?

Answer 1

Highlight the text, cut it (ctrl x), type quotes, paste text (ctrl v).

It's kind of a lame solution but it's faster since eclipse creates both quotes and puts cursor in the middle.

Answer 2

I don't think this functionality is in Eclipse by default, but you could try to add it yourself.

Select the block that you want to surround and press Alt+Shift+Z. This will open the "Surround with..." menu. It suggests some predefined templates, but also allows to add new ones. This is the closest of what Eclipse offers for that.