[Tex/LaTex] Overleaf shortcut: Put already written text in brackets

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I am looking for a shortcut which puts already written text in curly brackets.
I found this question but it doesn't work for Overleaf. I thought that I once have read something similar in an article but didn't find it anymore.

Can anyone help?

I appreciate your answers/ comments!

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There is no shortcut to do this on Overleaf at the moment (I'm on support staff there) - sorry about that. But I've registered an internal feature request for this, thanks!

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I'm not sure whether this question is asked at the right place, but nonetheless I found it interesting to try. Apparently you can add custom TeXstudio macros. In the main menu, click Macros > Edit macros.... At the right you can name your macro appropriately. The Abbreviation and Trigger option are not needed for this. The Type must be set to Script. Now you can add the following content:

%SCRIPT
c = cursor
var arr = new Array('\\{',c.selectedText(),'}');
str = arr.join('')
c.insertText(str)
c.moveTo(c.lineNumber(),c.columnNumber()-str.length+1)

Now you can achieve what you want with Shift + F1. I think you can even assign your own shortcut in the Options > Configure TeXstudio... menu.

Explanation
c=cursor This line declares a cursor object named c
var arr = new Array('\\{',c.selectedText(),'}'); This line defines an array that starts with \{ and ends with }. In between it places the text that is currently selected in the editor. The second \ is needed to escape, because it is an active character.
str = arr.join('') This line joins the array in one string (using the empty string '' as delimiter) and places it in str.
c.insertText(str) This line simply inserts the text in str.
c.moveTo(c.lineNumber(),c.columnNumber()-str.length+1) This line places the cursor to the position right after the \. The function c.moveTo takes two arguments, the first being the line number, and the second the column number. For the column number I used the current column number, minus the length of str, plus one to account for the \.

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I met the problem too (The tutorial does not work). I found the solution for me is just moving my main and external documents to the root of my overleaf project.

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