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If you have a list of words or sentences in Vim and you need to add a couple of tags around each of them you cannot siply use the V (upper v) command to select all of them before using vim.surround because in this case you get only one couple of tags for all the list.

In Vim HTML mode if you need to surround a word with a tag you can effectively use vim.surround with the cursor anywhere in the word using the following string: ysiw followed by the specific desired tag.