No MWE, for this pertains to the editor itself. I use TeXstudio mainly, but have briefly used TeXmaker a little.
When I write LaTeX documents, I very often find myself writing some text only to realise later, I want that text to be bold, italic, or in some command.
I am looking for an all-purpose way of marking text and then, preferably, some keyboard shortcut to encapsulates the marked text in curly brackets and put the cursor before the first bracket - so that I can type a command before the text or whatever markdown I need.
Marking text and then pressing keys for beginning parenthesis places the cursor at the end of the text, not even at outside the ending parenthesis. So in essence I am asking if it is possible to change what beginning curly bracket with marked text does in TeXstudio.
cmd+I
(or whatever the equivalent on your os is) will producenormal text \textit{selected text} normal text