Tiny sublime plugin to wrap a selection in something.

Default (OSX).sublime-keymap

[
    { "keys": ["alt+p"], "command": "wrap_text", "args": {"start":"<? ", "end":" ?>" }},
]

wrap.py

import sublime, sublime_plugin

class WrapTextCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit, start="", end="", select_mode='contents'):
        regions = []
        for region in self.view.sel():
            text = self.view.substr(region)
            self.view.replace(edit, region, "%s%s%s" % (start, text, end))
            
            if select_mode == 'contents':
                regions.append(sublime.Region(region.begin() + len(start), region.begin()+len(start)+len(text)))
            elif select_mode == 'wrappers':
                regions.append(sublime.Region(region.begin(), region.begin() + len(start)))
                regions.append(sublime.Region(region.begin() + len(start) + len(text), region.begin() + len(start) + len(text) + len(end)))
            elif select_mode == 'tags':
                # Assumes the start/end are html tags, and you want to select the "tag part"
                regions.append(sublime.Region(region.begin() + 1, region.begin() + len(start) - 1))
                regions.append(sublime.Region(region.begin() + len(start) + len(text) + 2, region.begin() + len(start) + len(text) + len(end) - 1))
        if not select_mode or select_mode == 'all':
            return
        self.view.sel().clear()
        for region in regions:
            self.view.sel().add(region)