[FEATURE] Select text and add hotkey OR add a command to automatically convert current selection to text

[NylaTheWolf]

Description of the Problem

It's annoying to have to manually add text and have to fix the bracket placement, such as when I have Student(x) and I want "Student" to be in plaintext. If I wanted to fix it after typing "Student", I'd have to type the shortcut for /text{}, and then delete the last bracket and add it to the end of "Student".

Description of the Solution

I would like to have the option to be able to highlight the text and type a shortcut like "T" to automatically convert the current selection to text, like the visual snippets.

Alternatively, you could add it to the command palette like you did for \boxed

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[bdm-k]

Hello,

How is your proposal different from the visual snippets?

[NylaTheWolf]

I didn't see anything in the README about any snippets that give selected text the \text tag. Is there something I missed?

[bdm-k]

You can define a visual snippet to accomplish that. Try adding the following line to your snippets and see if it does the trick:

{ trigger: "T", replacement: "\\text{ ${VISUAL} }", options: "mA" },

[NylaTheWolf]

Oh! That worked! Thank you!