Feature Request: wrap selection with brackets/quotes in commit message editor

[seanf]

A lot of editors these days, if some text is already selected when typing [, (, ", ', or ` , will wrap the previous text in a matched pair of brackets or quotes, instead of obliterating the previous text. It would be nice to have this in the message editor.

[Byron]

Thanks a lot for sharing, very interesting!

Somehow I feel that offering this as a feature gets close to trying to reimplement anything that people maybe used to from their editors, which seems like a losing battle.

Would it then nicer to have a a button that opens the message in the user's default editor, which when saved syncs with GitButler automatically?

[seanf]

By "other editors" I was personally thinking of JetBrains IDEs and text fields in GitHub (possibly augmented by Refined GitHub), although I think the feature I'm talking about is in a huge number of editors these days. Neither JetBrains IDEs nor GitHub really work well as $EDITOR but something like Sublime Text might (personally I don't use it as $EDITOR much).

Actually, an easy way to commit from my other tools would be even better: #11967

[Byron]

Right - I get it now and I love the idea of just allowing to commit on top of the workspace branch, and make the experience of re-integrating the commits smooth.
Also CC @Caleb-T-Owens for a workflow where a user would drag commits above the workspace around into stacks where a previous of "will it work" would be fantastic (something that's supported by the new rebase engine).