Repeating surround with "." command in VIM

Question

Did anybody get surround.vim to work with repeat.vim?

This should enable you to repeat any command provided by the surround plugin with the "." command.

I think surround.vim should already have builtin support for the repeat plugin, so it should work out of the box but I can't get it to work.

I was wondering the same thing. For example, when building a list it would be sweet to do a `yss
It looks like [surround.vim](http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1697) and [visualrepeat.vim](http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3848) don't work together. This is what I am looking for. — Hotschke, Feb 12 '14 at 12:12

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '09 at 10:28

I just put surround.vim and repeat.vim in my .vim/plugins folder and tried it out. For me, it works like described.

May you try the repeat command on a function that is not supported. In the docs of surround.vim it says

 The "." command will work with ds, cs, and yss if you install repeat.vim

It does not say that all commands work with repeat.vim. E.g. the visual mode stuff (select multiple lines and surround them) does not work with repeat.vim

You should put `repeat.vim` to `autoload/` directory, not to `plugin/`. — ZyX, Apr 30 '11 at 05:28

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '09 at 11:15

You were right. It seems to only work on ds, cs and yss.

It also works, partially, on yse, ysiw, ysaw, ys2w. When you repeat a ysiw command it will stop at a prompt waiting for you to input a type of surrounding (i.e. b, B, r, ", t...).

Still no visual commands though. I hope there'll be future versions with added support for the rest of the commands.

Thanks for the answer.

Repeating surround with "." command in VIM

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