But there have been sensible bindings for doing this forever, e.g.: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround There's no need

But there have been sensible bindings for doing this forever, e.g.: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround There's no need to break normal editing behavior.