Trying ysiw** for markdown files

[iampbernardo]

Trying to make ysiw** as a help for markdown files, results in adding only on *.
Am I doing it wrong or isn't that posible right now?

[tpope]

Not possible.

[davidsierradz]

You can use surround customizing (see: :h surround-customizing), for example:

augroup initvim
  au!
  autocmd FileType markdown let b:surround_8364 = "**\r**"
augroup END

8364 is the € symbol (check the symbol number with :echo char2nr("-"), now you can use it like:

|foo bar
ys2w€
|**foo bar**