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      credits: lunar_limbo, original author: IMFUZZ

Organize your code with large ASCII font comments to quickly idenfity your position in the file.

Deeply customize the output with prefix, suffix, perLinePrefix, and more. Use commands or stored configs to quickly add large banner comments using figlet. With geddski.macros you can setup keybinds for your favorite configs

Play around with over 275+ mostly useless ascii fonts in this sandbox.

NEW! Is your favorite figlet missing? No problem! Add your own .flf fonts for use with this extension. Create your own or download from the many sources online

Features

Designed primarily so you can save your favorite styles in reusable configs. Find your favorite figlet fonts and settings and assign them to a keyboard shortcut!

• Use a default configuration or create multiple saved configs
• Setup keybinds for your favorite configs using geddski.macros (instructions below)
• Deep customization: from Figlet's options, to comment styles, and even prefixes/suffixes
• Add your own fonts to the available list
• Will convert selection(s) or current line(s) into banner

Examples

i3 configuration

vscode extension

Commands

Apply - Converts selection or line into banner comment

ApplyFromConfig - Convert selection or line using stored config

Keybinds for configs - Apply configs with keybinds using geddski.macros

Supports multiple selections

see contributions for other commands

Extension Settings

Figlet Settings

The figlet settings can be best understood by playing with this tool

• font
• horizontalLayout
• verticalLayout

Trim Settings

• trimTrailingWhitespace
  • to avoid lint traps
• trimEmptyLines
  • often, fonts have extra lines for descenders even when none in output
  • get rid of them to clean up your result
  • OR don't and keep each output unfirom
  • NOTE: will remove ALL lines. Multi line banners will therefore ignore verticalLayout

Comment Style

Some languages don't have both styles of comments. Some langauges have different standards for how to use those comment styles. Take your pick.

• block: only use block style comment, but fallback to line comment if none
• line: only use line style comment, but fallback to block comment if none
• both: always put both block and line comments in output

Fix Settings

These are rather straight forward. But remember these caveats:

1. perLinePrefix is applied to your prefix and suffix
2. Use \n to add newlines
3. perLinePrefix applied even without commentStyle line added

• prefix
• suffix
• perLinePrefix

Font Settings

favorites - store your favorite fonts in a list for easy selection with ApplyFromFavorites

customFonts - list of paths to custom figlet font files you may download

Config Options

configDescriptionKeys - a list of 'keys' which are shown when displaying ApplyFromConfig to add more data than simply the name

configs - a list of configs saved for reuse with ApplyFromConfig, All settings in contributions can be added to a config. If a settings is not specified in a config, the default option is used.

Macro configuration

1. install geddski.macros
2. write configs in settings file
3. write macro for config in settings file
4. create keybind

2. Write config

    "banner-comments-plus.configs": {
        "h1": {
            "font": "Small",
            "trimEmptyLines": true,
            "commentStyle": "block",
            "prefix": "",
            "suffix": "--------------------------------------------------"
        }
    }

3. Write macro

The args value MUST match the key given to the config in your settings.

     "macros": {
        "banner-comments-plus-h1": [
            {"command": "banner-comments-plus.ApplyFromConfig", "args": "h1"},
        ]
    }

4. Create Keybind

    {
        "key": "ctrl+shift+delete",
        "command": "macros.banner-comments-plus-h1",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    }

Requirements

None!

Known Issues

• Only the languages provided by vscode are supported to wrap the banner with comments.
• Does not work with Markdown because of naming convention of extension from Microsoft

• Adding a config through menus, you cannot set prefix, suffix, or perLineSuffix to double apostraphe ('') as this value is reserved to sumbit an empty string