Surround selected text with Emphasis

Features
1

At the moment it’s possible to surround (in the editor) the selected text with parenthesis or quotes by selecting part of the text and pressing one of the following characters ( [ " or '. For example in a sentence

Feature requests and support

one can select the word requests and press ( which results surrounding this word with parenthesis:

Feature (requests) and support

It’s extremely useful because it speeds up editing notes.
Why not to extend the supported types of surrounding to the following characters:

  • * italic
  • ** bold
  • _ italic
  • __ bold
  • ` (code block)

Seems quite obvious extension in my opinion

2

This is possible already by using the hotkeys for each function.

  • Ctrl + i for italic
  • Ctrl + b for bold
  • Ctrl - ` for code (single line and multiline)

I wouldn’t expect this to be added as you suggested because there is already a standard/intuitive way to get the same behavior.

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You’re right however in my opinion it’s something different. I was talking about covering the other cases of markup features not about adding additional hotkeys. Ctrl + I and Ctrl + B are pretty straightforward but I don’t think many people are conscious of Ctrl + `.
On the other hand why surrounding the selected text by (), {} or [] is done my way instead of pressing Ctrl + (, Ctrl + { or Ctrl + [ respectively ? It’s somehow inconsistent, isn’t it?

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I see your point, the consistency would be good. Personally I have the auto-pairing of braces disabled so I didn’t get the appeal right away. This could probably be added to the auto-pairing of braces.