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Put parentheses around selection

Ehud Behar
Posted 7 years ago

Hello Suppose I wrote an expression, such as xy. Pressing Ctrl+. , I can select the expression. Now I want to put this expression in parentheses:

(xy)

This option works for putting a squre-root sign around an expression, by pressing Ctrl+2. What I am looking for is an equivalent shortcut for bracket, or the parentheses, punctuation mark.
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Ehud Behar
Posted 7 years ago

Thanks a lot for all of the comments. I am sure about to adopt one of them.
POSTED BY: Ehud Behar

I am pretty sure this was available in Mathematica 2.2, but it was removed from the GUI. This is still available as a FrontEndToken. I have a palette that activates it:

Button["(\[SelectionPlaceholder])",  
 FrontEndExecute[
  FrontEndToken[SelectedNotebook[], "SelectionParenthesize"]]]

In modern text editors like Sublime Text and Atom, when you have someting selected and type "(" the selection is parentized instead of replaced. I wish this behabior was adepted by Mathematica (and also for "{" and "[").

Related: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/84720/parenthesize-what-i-have-highlighted

POSTED BY: Gustavo Delfino

This is pretty simple to do without modifying any existing settings. After you've selected what you want wrapped in parentheses, just hit Ctrl-6 then Delete (or Backspace). It's not a single shortcut, but I've been using it for years and don't find it cumbersome.

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