Swiss Army knife for text manipulation and selection. This extension provides 65+ commands to manipulate and select text in your files. The commands are available globally and ready to be used any time with any file. If you have text selected it will perform the actions in the current selections otherwise it will perform the action in the entire file.
- Make Camel Case:
test stringbecomestestString - Make Screaming Snake Case:
test stringbecomesTEST_STRING- Also available as Make Constant Case
- Make Dot Case:
test stringbecomestest.string - Make Header Case:
test stringbecomesTest-String- Also available as Make Train Case
- Make No Case:
testStringbecomestest string - Make Flat Case:
testStringbecomesteststring - Make Snake Case:
Test stringbecomestest_string - Make Pascal Snake Case:
Test stringbecomesTest_String - Make Camel Snake Case:
Test stringbecomestest_String - Make Kebab Case:
Test stringbecomestest-string - Make Screaming Kebab Case:
Test stringbecomesTEST-STRING - Make Pascal Case:
test stringbecomesTestString - Make Path Case:
test stringbecomestest/string - Make Sentence Case:
testStringbecomesTest string - Make Sponge Case:
Test stringbecomestEsT StRiNG - Make Capital Case:
Test stringbecomesTest String - Make Lower Case:
Test stringbecomestest string - Make Upper Case:
Test stringbecomesTEST STRING - Make Title Case:
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- Sort Lines Alphanumerically
- Sort Lines Alphanumerically Reverse
- Sort Lines by length
- Sort Lines by length Reverse
- Delete Duplicate Lines
- Delete Empty Lines
- Filter Duplicate Lines (In case you only want to know the duplicate values)
- Filter Duplicate Lines as New Document (same as above but result will be added in a new document)
- Filter Unique Lines (In case you only want to know the unique values and exclude duplicates: example:
a, b, b, cbecomesa, c) - Filter Unique Lines as New Document (same as above but result will be added in a new document)
- Delete Lines Matching... (Delete all lines that contains certain text or matches a regex)
- Filter Lines Matching... (Filter all lines that contains certain text or matches a regex)
- Filter Lines Matching as New Document (same as above but result will be added in a new document)
- Reverse Lines
- Randomize Lines
- Join Lines (Join lines using a specified delimiter)
- Split Text to Lines (Split a string to lines at the specified delimiter)
- Add Lines number with multiple formats: 1, 1., 1), 1.-, 1 -, 1:, Ordinal, Roman Numerals
- Base64 Encode
- Base64 Decode
- URL Encode
- URL Decode
- Encode Spaces: converts spaces to
%20 - Decode Spaces: converts
%20to spaces - Encode HTML Entities
- Decode HTML Entities
- HTML to Decimal Entities: Useful to obfuscate emails in HTML. it can be decoded with
Decode HTML Entities - ASCII to decimal
- ASCII to Hex
- Text to Binary
- Binary to Text
- Text to ROT13
- Add Slashes
- Strip Slashes
- Smart Quotes
"I don't know you"becomes“I don’t know you” - Straighten Quotes
“don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’”becomes"don't know what you mean by 'glory'" - Single Quotes to Double Quotes
- Single Quotes to Backticks
- Double Quotes to Single Quotes
- Double Quotes to Backticks
- Quotes to Backticks
- Insert Non-breaking Space
- Select Lines Matching... (Selects lines that contains certain text or matches a regex)
- Select Words Matching... (Select all strings that contains certain text or matches a regex)
- Select All Occurrences (grabs your currently selected text and will select all occurrences in the file)
- Selection Expand (Expand the current selection
control+option+right) - Selection Shrink (Shrink the current selection
control+option+left) - Selection Align (Planned)
To learn more please checkout the examples below.
- Wrap Each Line With... (for example:
<li>$1</li>, read more below.) - Add Text At Beginning of Lines... (adds at the beginning of each line the text you entered)
- Add Text At Ends of Lines... (adds at the end of each line the text you entered)
- Generate UUID
- Generate Fake Data (Names, Emails, Phones, Credit Cards, etc. Still working on it but definitely will be added)
- Generate Dummy File (Quickly create any file with any extension and size, read more below.)
- Add All Numbers (View the examples below)
- Subtract All Numbers (View the examples below)
- JSON String Parse (Pretty print a JSON encoded string with support for serialized strings, this way you can easily print a serialized array from a database)
Easy, there are several ways.
- You can invoke the commands using the Commands Palette
- You can right click your file and you will see a "Text Tools" menu that contains all the available commands
- You can access the tools from the Editor Menu -> Text Tools
- You can also configure a Key Binding for the command you use the most for exaple
Select All Occurrences
This is an advanced way to filter by entering a simple query or a regular expression, this works for command that includes in it's name Matching... for example: Delete Lines Matching..., Filter Lines Matching..., Select Lines Matching, etc.
Here are some examples of how to use it.
Having the following text, if we for example call the command "Filter Lines Matching..." and we enter gmail it will leave only the lines that contains gmail
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
result will be:
To match lines at the beginning, when calling the command (for example "Filter Lines Matching...") we just need to enter our query starting with a ^ so if we enter ^ma
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
result will be:
To match lines that ends with, when calling the command (for example "Filter Lines Matching...") we just need to enter our query ending with a $ so if we enter org$
result will be:
To match lines that do not contain some text, when calling the command (for example "Filter Lines Matching...") we just need start our query with a ! so if we enter !gmail.com we are basically saying keep only lines that do not contain gmail.com
result will be:
You can use the power of regular expressions to filter lines for example if you filter using @we.+dogs\.org we can return lines that have @we followed by any amount of characters followed by dogs.org
result will be:
You can use this to quickly make selections by using a regex or regular text for example:
# Given the following code
class Foo(object):
def some(self, arg):
self.bar = arg
self.baz = arg + self.smth
def on_done(self, rx):
self.view = x
def on_change(self, rx):
self.view = x
We can invoque the "Select Occurrences Matching..." and we can enter def to select all occurrences of def, we can also use a regular expression for example def (\w+)\(self, rx\) this will select on_done and on_change
If you use regex and there's capture groups then only the groups will be selected.
With this command you can wrap each line with any text you want, you can use $1 as placeholder to represent the line content, for example: <li>$1</li>
Duncan Prewett
Ernesto Gladi
Wava Fodor
Annamarie Dianei
result will be:
<li>Duncan Prewett</li>
<li>Ernesto Gladi</li>
<li>Wava Fodor</li>
<li>Annamarie Dianei</li>
You can join lines with any delimiter you want, for example, if you use a comma as delimiter.
Duncan Prewett
Ernesto Gladi
result will be:
Duncan Prewett,Ernesto Gladi
You can split text with any delimiter you want, for example, if you use a comma as delimiter.
Duncan Prewett,Ernesto Gladi
result will be:
Duncan Prewett
Ernesto Gladi
Really useful to pretty print some json string, for example:
{"name":"John", "age":30, "car":null}
result will be:
{
"name": "John",
"age": 30,
"car": null
}
It also works for serialized strings in case you grab the value from a database and quickly need to inspect it's content.
s:60:"{"product":"Awesome Product", "price": 200, "shipping":null}";
result will be:
{
"product": "Awesome Product",
"price": 200,
"shipping": null
}
You can easily add or subtract all the numbers in your document, each value must be in it's own line, if the line contains other text it will be removed to leave only the numbers. Important: for now it only supports numbers with comma as thousand separator and dot as decimal separator
130.23
Price $2,000.00
Discount 40
result will be:
2170.23
You can create dummy files to test API's, file uploads, etc. The file will be created at the root of your project, with the filename and size provided. You can call the command from the command palette or from the menu Extensions -> Generate Dummy File
The file name can be anything for example:
myfile (with no extension)
myfile.text
myfile.mp4
myfile.zip
myfile.pdf
myfile.csv
...etc
The file size can be written in multiple ways, it's case insensitive and spaces are ignored.
1500 (if only a number it's entered it will be interpreted as bytes so in this case 1500 bytes)
500kb or 500 kb or 500 kilobytes
200mb or 200 mb or 200 megabytes
2gb or 2 gb or 2 gigabytes
...etc
If you have one in mind do not hesitate to share it with us, if it can help a lot of people we'll surely implement it.
Expand selection is a heavily modified version of the VS Code extension expand region and Sublime Text expand region.