VSCode Text Toolbox

Download for VS Code

Download for VS Codium

Collection of tools for text manipulation, filtering, sorting etc...

The VS Code Marketplace has a number of great extensions for text manipulation, I installed a few of them to cover the entire range of actions I normally use, unfortunately that means there is some overlapping between them, basically the same action is contributed by multiple extensions (case conversion, for example). That is what motivated me to build this extension: I like the idea to have a single extension for all those operations and without duplicates; plus, it is a good pastime 😊.

Please open an issue to leave a comment, report a bug, request a feature etc... (you know the drill).

Workspace Trust

The extension does not require any special permission, therefore is enabled to run in an Untrusted Workspace

Visual Studio Code for the Web

Text-Toolbox works in Visual Studio Code for the Web (https://github.dev and https://vscode.dev)

Current list of commands

Notable absents: Convert to Uppercase and Convert to Lowercase have been removed in favor of the built-in commands in VScode. Likewise, Convert to CapitalCase has been removed in favor of the built-in VSCode command Transform to Title Case.

Text conversions

• PascalCase
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet => LoremIpsumDolorSitAmet
• camelCase
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet => loremIpsumDolorSitAmet
• CONSTANT_CASE
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet => LOREM_IPSUM_DOLOR_SIT_AMET
• HEADER-CASE
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet => LOREM-IPSUM-DOLOR-SIT-AMET
• dot.case
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet => lorem.ipsum.dolor.sit.amet
• kebab-case
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet => lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet
• Sentence case
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet => Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
• snake_case
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet => lorem_ipsum_dolor_sit_amet
• Invert case
  • Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet => lOREM iPSUM dOLOR sIT aMET
• Convert path string to posix format
• Convert path string to win32 format
• Convert integer to hexadecimal
• Convert hexadecimal to integer
• HTML encode/decide
• Uri encode/decode
• Decode JWT token

Insert text

• Insert UUID
  • 0d7196e1-df50-ea89-b518-9335ecc62a20
• Insert GUID
  • 14854fc2-f782-5136-aebb-a121b9ba6af1
• Insert GUID all zeros
  • 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
• Insert Date
  • DATE_SHORT => 8/25/2020
  • DATE_LONG => Tuesday, August 25, 2020
  • TIME_SIMPLE => 5:34 PM
  • TIME_WITH_SECONDS => 5:34:45 PM
  • DATETIME_SHORT => 8/25/2020, 5:34 PM
  • DATETIME_SHORT_WITH_SECONDS => 8/25/2020, 5:35:17 PM
  • DATETIME_FULL_WITH_SECONDS => August 25, 2020, 5:35 PM PDT
  • DATETIME_HUGE => Sunday, May 30, 2021, 5:59 PM PDT
  • SORTABLE => 2020-08-25T17:34:58
  • UNIVERSAL_SORTABLE => 2020-08-26T00:35:01Z
  • ROUNDTRIP => 2021-05-31T00:52:12.057Z
  • ISO8601 => 2020-08-25T17:35:05.818-07:00
  • ISO8601_DATE => 2020-08-25
  • ISO8601_TIME => 17:35:05.818-07:00
  • RFC2822 => Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:35:10 -0700
  • HTTP => Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:35:13 GMT
  • UNIX_SECONDS => 1598402124
  • UNIX_MILLISECONDS =>1598402132390
• Insert Random
  • IPV4 => 123.75.174.203
  • IPV6 => 7c50:a61a:5ee0:4562:0dda:b41d:114b:71e0
  • NUMBER => 6739440105947136
  • PERSON_NAME
    • random => May Osborne
    • male => Jeffery Ramos
    • female => Theresa Boone
  • SSN => 956-68-2442
  • PROFESSION => Senior Art Director
  • ANIMAL => Grison
  • COMPANY => SBC Communications Inc
  • DOMAIN => cuzkiwpi.sy
  • EMAIL => [email protected]
  • COLOR
    • hex => #4461ae
    • rgb => rgb(87,199,246)
  • TWITTER => @zatbiini
  • URL => http://fuk.si/ek
  • CITY => Ecicezjev
  • ADDRESS => 1784 Kaolo Grove
  • COUNTRY => IT
  • COUNTRY_FULL_NAME => Italy
  • PHONE => (923) 447-6974
  • ZIP_CODE => 35691
  • STATE => WA
  • STATE_FULL_NAME => Washington
  • STREET => Pase Manor
  • TIMEZONE => Kamchatka Standard Time
  • PARAGRAPH => Cij wam lijoso fa molah il nasiskil ho andot akbuh uku zikahek. Ji balsiffe puzmaano nuug bofevu ra tehar heuwa zorjul hej na heci aka webo lorresu uwage uhe nirsiam.
  • HASH => 61960319307b5f8d298141627
• Insert Lorem Ipsum
  • Paragraphs
  • Sentences
  • Words
• Insert random number
• Insert random currency amount
  • US Dollar
  • Euro
  • British Pound
  • Japanese Yen
  • Chinese Yuan
  • Indian Rupee
  • Mexican Peso
  • Israeli New Shequel
  • Bitcoin
  • South Korean Won
  • South African Rand
  • Swiss Franc
• Insert line numbers
• Insert numbers sequence
• Pad Selection Right
• Pad Selection Left
• Prefix with...
• Suffix with...
• Surround with...
• Insert line separator...

Note: If multiple cursors are active, ask the user if to insert the same random value or unique random values at each cursor's position

Filter

• Filter lines, result in new Editor
  • use RegExp (default) or set TextToolbox.filtersUseRegularExpressions to false to use simple string match instead
  • RegExp allow for a more targeted search; use global flags to fine tune your search. RegExp must use forward slashes (/) to delimit the expression and the global flags (optional): /<expression>/flags
    • /\d.*/gm
  • string match allows to find all lines containing the string you are looking for, the string must match exactly

Open

• Open under cursor
  • Position the cursor on a file path, URL or email address and open it with alt+o on Windows (cmd+o on Mac)

Remove

• Remove all empty lines
  • remove all empty lines from the current document
• Remove redundant empty line
  • remove all redundant empty lines from the current document: reduces multiple empty lines to one
• Remove duplicate lines
• Remove duplicate lines, result in new Editor
• Remove brackets
• Remove quotes
• Cycle brackets
• Cycle quotes

Sort

• Sort lines
  • Ascending
  • Descending
  • Reverse
• Sort lines by length
  • Ascending
  • Descending
  • Reverse

Control characters

• Highlight control characters
  • By default control characters are highlighted with a red box but color and border shape can be customized through TextToolbox.decorateControlCharacters
• Remove control characters
  • By default control characters are replaced with an empty string but this can be changed through TextToolbox.replaceControlCharactersWith.
  • Removes control characters from the current selection(s) or from the entire document if no text is selected

Split

• Split selection based on delimiter
  • Split and open in new editor

Json

• Stringify Json
• Fix and Format Json
• Minify Json
• Fix Win32 path in Json

Highlight text

• Highlight
• Highlight with color...
• Highlight all matches, case sensitive
• Highlight all matches, case insensitive
• Highlight all matches, case sensitive, with color...
• Highlight all matches, case insensitive, with color...
• Highlight with RegExp
• Highlight with RegExp with color...
• Remove all highlights
• Remove highlight

Note: In this release, highlights and decorations are persisted as long as the VSCode instance is running but are not restored if VSCode is restarted. Persistence across restarts will be added in a future release.

Align

• Align as table
  • Formats a CSV selection as a markdown style table: does not need to be a markdown file, but the table is formatted using the markdown stile
• Align as table with headers
  • Uses the first line in the CSV selection as table headers, markdown style
• Align to separator

Align commands can use RegExp to identify the separator; for example you can use \s for space and \t for tabs

Tab Out

• Toggle Tab Out

• Tab Out of brackets, quotes and some punctuation

  • Note: Tab Out is always disabled it the cursor is at the beginning of a line (position 0) to allow to indent its text

• Enable or disable the feature for all languages with TextToolbox.tabOut.enabled: default true

• Show or hide a message in the Status Bar when Tab Out is enabled with TextToolbox.tabOut.showInStatusBar: default true

• Control which characters (brackets, quotes etc.) can be tabbed out of

• Choose for which language types Tab Out is enabled, with TextToolbox.tabOut.enabledLanguages: default * (enabled for all languages)

• Choose for which language types Tab Out is disabled, with TextToolbox.tabOut.disableLanguages: default empty, meaning Tab Out is not explicitly disabled for any language

  • You can combine TextToolbox.tabOut.disableLanguages and TextToolbox.tabOut.enableLanguages to fine-tune how Tab Out should work: for example you can enable Tab Out for all language types except plaintext with:

  {
    "TextToolbox.tabOut.enableLanguages": ["*"],
    "TextToolbox.tabOut.disableLanguages": ["plaintext"]
  }

Indentation

• Indent using 2 spaces
• Indent using 4 spaces

Ordered List

• Transform to Ordered List
  • Currently supports the following ordered list types:
    • 1. => number.
    • 1) => number)
    • a. => lowercase.
    • a) => lowercase)
    • A. => UPPERCASE.
    • A) => UPPPERCASE)
    • i. => Roman lowercase.
    • i) => Roman lowercase)
    • I. => Roman UPPERCASE.
    • I) => Roman UPPERCASE)

Others

• Open selection(s) in new editor
• Duplicate tab (open the current document's text in a new unsaved document)
• Select brackets content
• Select quotes content

Status Bar

• Show the number of lines in a selection
• Show the number of words in a selection or the number of words in the document if there is no selection
• Show the cursor position (active offset)
• Show if Tab Out is enabled for the document

My other extensions

• Virtual Repos: Virtual Repos is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows to open and edit a remote repository (e.g. on GitHub) without cloning, committing or pushing your changes. It all happens automatically
• Virtual Gists: Virtual Gists is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows to open and edit a remote gist (e.g. on GitHub) without cloning, committing or pushing your changes. It all happens automatically
• Virtual Git: VSCode extension path with my extensions to work with virtual repositories and gists based on a virtual file system

• File System Toolbox: VSCode extension to work with the file system, path auto-complete on any file type
• Changelog Manager: VSCode extension, helps to build a changelog for your project, either in markdown or plain text files. The changelog format follows Keep a changelog
• Hogwarts colors for Visual Studio Code: Visual Studio theme colors inspired by Harry Potter, Hogwarts and Hogwarts Houses colors and banners

Acknowledgements

Text Toolbox is freely inspired by these fine extensions:

• gurayyarar DummyTextGenerator
• qcz vscode-text-power-tools
• tomoki1207 selectline-statusbar
• adamwalzer string-converter
• Tyriar vscode-sort-lines
• rpeshkov vscode-text-tables
• wmaurer vscode-change-case
• volkerdobler insertnums
• WengerK vscode-highlight-bad-chars
• nhoizey vscode-gremlins
• Pustelto Bracketeer
• albertromkes tabout
• Compulim indent4to2