Overview

Texty is a sweet set of Text related utilities that makes you power user.

If you have any issues or feature requests, please create an issue at https://github.com/datasert/vscode-texty/issues. You can also use Texty: Create Issue command to open this url.

Install

To install this extension, follow these steps.

• Open VS code and goto Extensions side bar
• Search for Texty
• Click on Install Button

Commands

Texty has multiple modules, each of them with multiple utilities/commands.

Usually all commands within the module starts with same verb. For ex., insert or Convert.

Also all Texty commands are prefixed with Texty: to make it clear and avoid confusion. So to list all Texty commands, just enter Texty:.

Open

Copy

Insert

Convert Case

Convert Date/time

Filter

Sort

Remove

Split

Join

Encoding/Decoding

Encryption

Custom Script/Command

See the guide below for more information about these commands.

Translate

Guides

Number Series

Command Insert Number Series... can be used to generate number series of any kind using options below.

Preset Series

Command Insert Preset Series can be used to generate series of various preset series into the selection. Available presets are found in this config. In later versions, we will add support for custom series.

Here are avaiable presets.

Process selections using Script

The command Process selections using script prompts use to enter any arbitary javascript expressions and replaces the selections with result of that expression execution.

The custom script can refer to following variables.

Here are some examples.

• Prefix each selection with length of each selections

  selection.length + ' ' + selection

• Reverse the lines

  selection.split('\n').reverse().join('\n')

• Format the numbers using numeral

  numeral(selection).format('0,0.00')

• Use lodash to remove duplicate words in selections

  _.uniq(selection.split(' ')).join(' ')

Process lines using Script

This command is same as Process selections using script but it splits each selection into lines, then calls the script for each line within each selections. This script context has access to following variables in addition to ones listed above.

Process selections using Custom Command

If you execute a particular script multiple times, then you could save that script as a custom command with friendly title and execute that command with easy selection. You can also keybind that command if you want to execute that command quickly.

To add a custom command, follow these steps.

• Open the vscode settings json using Preferences: Open settings (JSON)
• Add custom script using syntax below. If you already have texty node, then just add additional commands as necessary.

  "texty": {
      "customCommands": {
          "convertSelectionsIntoLength": {
              "title": "Convert selections into length",
              "script": "selection.length"
          },
          "addSpaceAroundText": {
              "title": "Add space around text",
              "script": "' ' + selection + ' '"
          }
      }
  }

• Restart vscode (you need to restart each time you update the custom commands)
• During extension init, texty will register each of these commands with prefix texty.custom.
• Run command Texty: Process selections using costom command
• Select your command and it should process text using that command.

These custom commands does't appear in the main command palette because limitation of vscode api however you could still keybind those custom commands either from UI or from json as follows.

...
    {
        "key": "shift+alt+cmd+n",
        "command": "texty.custom.convertSelectionsIntoLength"
    }
...

Credits

• Open source libraries
• Logo from Free Logo Design
• Texty is dedicated to my wife Madhu (means honey)