Wrap in Parentheses

Overview

What Wrap in Parentheses does

Adds parentheses while keeping surrounding whitespace outside them. Running it again removes one matching pair.

Example

Action and outcome

Workflow

Use Wrap in Parentheses

Follow these steps to toggle parentheses around selected text with ActionClip.

1. Select the text you want to use.
2. Choose Wrap in Parentheses from ActionClip.
3. In editable text, ActionClip replaces the selection immediately. In read-only text, it opens the result for review and copying.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

• Before you start: No setup required.
• Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action script

The script below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

function run(selected_text) {
  const match = selected_text.match(/^(\s*)([\s\S]*?)(\s*)$/);
  const leading = match[1];
  const content = match[2];
  const trailing = match[3];
  if (content.length >= 2 && content.startsWith("(") && content.endsWith(")")) {
    return leading + content.slice(1, -1) + trailing;
  }
  return leading + "(" + content + ")" + trailing;
}