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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
Command
Description
Open file in Browser
Opens the current file in previously selected browser
Open file in Browser...
Opens the current file in browser selected by the user. Once selected, the browser preference is saved and then above command will use this browser
Open file in System default app
Opens the current file in System associated app.
Copy
Command
Description
Copy text
Copies the selections in text only mode into clipboard
Copy text append
Appends the selections in text only mode into current text contents of the clipboard
Copy lines containing string
Copies lines containing user specified string
Copy lines not containing string
Copies lines not containing user specified string
Copy lines containing regex
Copies lines containing user specified regex pattern
Copy lines not containing regex
Copies lines not containing the user specified regex pattern
Insert
Command
Description
Insert Number Series from 0
Inserts number series starting from 0
Insert Number Series from 1
Inserts number series starting from 1
Insert Number Series...
Prompts user to enter various options and inserts series according to specified options.
Insert Uuid
Inserts uuid into the selections. For ex., ece1953e-8bca-46d8-a701-56c6fe1c1aaa
Insert Uuid (No Dashes)
Inserts uuid without dashes into selections. For ex., ece1953e8bca46d8a70156c6fe1c1aaa
Insert Uuid Key
Inserts uuid with {} and inserts into the selections. For ex., {ece1953e-8bca-46d8-a701-56c6fe1c1aaa}
Insert Short Id
Inserts short ids. For ex.,
Insert Lorem Ipsum Word
Inserts one word of lorem ipsum text into selections
Insert Lorem Ipsum Line
Inserts one sentense of lorem ipsum text into selections
Insert Lorem Ipsum Paragraph
Inserts one paragraph of lorem ipsum text into selections
Insert Lorem Ipsum with Options
Prompts user for options and generates the text according to that
Insert Lorem Picsum
Inserts image tag with image from Lorem Picsum with previosly specified or default options. Checkout Picsum.
Insert Lorem Picsum with options
Shows options dialog box and then inserts random image based on specified options
Insert Time ISO Format
Inserts current time in ISO 8601 format. For ex., 2019-11-30T04:25:12Z
Insert Date ISO Format
Inserts today in ISO 8601 format. For ex., 2019-11-29
Insert Preset Series
Prompts user to select preset type and generates series of that type. Available presets are here. See guide Preset Series for more information.
Convert Case
Command
Description
Convert to Lower Case
For ex., account number
Convert to Upper Case
For ex., ACCOUNT NUMBER
Convert to Camel Case
For ex., accountNumber
Convert to Pascal Case
For ex., AccountNumber
Convert to Snake Case
For ex., account_number
Convert to Kebab Case
For ex., account-number
Convert to Constant Case
For ex., ACCOUNT_NUMBER
Convert to Dot Case
For ex., Account.Number
Convert to Path Case
For ex., Account/Number
Convert to Space Case
For ex., Account Number
Convert to Sentense Case
For ex., Account number
Convert to Capital Case
For ex., Account Number
Convert Date/time
Command
Description
Convert to Date/Time...
Prompts user for options and converts the date/time to according to those options.
Convert to Relative time
Converts the date/times to relative times. For ex., 2 minutes ago, 5 days ago etc.,
Convert Date/Time to human friendly format
Converts the selected date/time to human friendly format. For ex., Tue Jan 1 2019, 6:45:23 am
Filter
Command
Description
Filter lines containing string
Filters lines containing user specified string
Filter lines containing string into new editor
Same as above but inserts the results into new text editor
Filter lines not containing string
Filters lines not containing user specified string
Filter lines not containing string into new editor
Same as above but inserts the results into new text editor
Filter lines containing regex
Filters lines containing user specified regex pattern
Filter lines containing regex into new editor
Same as above but inserts the results into new text editor
Filter lines not containing regex
Filters lines not containing the user specified regex pattern
Filter lines not containing regex into new editor
Same as above but inserts the results into new text editor
Sort
Command
Description
Sort Lines
Sorts lines by ascending order
Sort Lines (Descending)
Sorts lines by descending order
Sort Lines (Ignore Case)
Sorts lines case insensitively by ascending order
Sort Lines (Ignore Case Descending)
Sorts lines case insensitively by descending order
Sort Lines (Length)
Sorts lines by length of each line (shortest first)
Sort Lines (Length Descending)
Sorts lines by length of each line descending (long first)
Sort Lines (Shuffle)
Sorts lines by random order
Sort Lines (Natural)
Sorts lines by natural order. Natural order is where numbers with in the lines are sorted numerically.
Sort Lines (Natural Descending)
Sorts Lines by natural order (see above) descending order
Remove
Command
Description
Remove Blank Lines
Removes all blank lines (lines with only whitespaces)
Remove Blank Lines (Surplus)
Removes all blank lines if there are more than one
Remove Duplicate Lines
Removes all duplicate lines
Remove Duplicate Lines (Ignore Case)
Removes all duplicate lines ignoring case
Split
Command
Description
Split by Sentences
Splits the selection by sentences (separated by dot)
Split by Length
Prompts user to enter max length and splits the lines by that size
Split by Length (80 chars)
Splits the lines by max 80 chars
Split by Length (120 chars)
Splits the lines by max 120 chars
Join
Command
Description
Join lines for In clause
Joins the lines to SQL in clause format. For ex., 'foo', 'bar'
Join lines to csv
Joins the lines to csv
Join lines with space
Joins the lines with space in between
Join lines with options
Prompts user for options and joins the lines with that options
Encoding/Decoding
Command
Description
Url Encode
Url Encodes the text
Url Decode
Url Decodes the text
Base 64 Encode
Base 64 Encodes the text
Base 64 Decode
Base 64 Decodes the text
Html Encode
Html Encodes the text
Html Decode
Html Decodes the text
Xml Encode
Xml Encodes the text
Xml Decode
Xml Decodes the text
Jwt Decode
Jwt Decodes the text
Encryption
Command
Description
View MD5 Hash
Shows the Md5 hash of selections or all text
Encrypt Text
Prompts for password and replaces each selections with encrypted base64 encoded strings
Decrypt Text
Prompts for password and replaces each selections with decrypted base64 encoded strings
Custom Script/Command
See the guide below for more information about these commands.
Command
Description
Process selections using script
Prompts user to enter any Javascript code and process selections using that script
Process lines using script
Prompts user to enter any Javascript code and process lines using that script
Process text using Custom Command
Prompts user to select one of the defined custom commands and processes selections using that command
Translate
Command
Description
Translate using Google
Opens the Google Translate url using selected text
Guides
Number Series
Command Insert Number Series... can be used to generate number series of any kind using options below.
Option
Type
Description
start
int or float
The starting number of the series. It can be integer or float and can also be -ve value. For ex., 1 or 1.5 or -100
step
int or float
The amount to increment for each new number. This value will be added to previous value. This can be -ve value if you want to series to go back.
count
int
The maximum number of values to generate. After these many values are generated, series will start over from start value
format
string
If you want to format the numbers, you can specify the format string here and it will be formatted using numeral npm package. See here for formatting options.
padSize
int
If you want to pad the numbers, you can specify the size of total length of string. If generated series is smaller than this length, then it will be left padded with string specified below.
padString
string
If number needs to be padded, it will use this pad string. This can be single char or multi char. If no pad string is specified, then defaults to space.
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.
Type
Description
Greek Letter Names
For ex., Alpha, Beta
Greek Lettes
For ex., α, β
Letters Lowercase
For ex., a, b
Letters Uppercase
For ex., A, B
Months Long
For ex., January, February
Months Short
For ex., Jan, Feb
Number Words
For ex., One, Two
Roman Numbers
For ex., I, II
Weekdays Long
For ex., Monday, Tuesday
Weekdays Short
For ex., Mon, Tue
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.
Variable
Type
Description
selection
string
Current selection which the script is processing. If there are more than one selection, then script is executed multiple times (once for each selection)
lodash
lodash
This is full lodash reference so you can use any of those functions
_
lodash
Alias for lodash
moment
moment
The moment-timezone reference so you can use it to format dates etc.,
numeral
numeral
The numeral reference so you can use it to format numbers etc.,
texty
object
Object with various Texty modules. Check out the source evals.ts for more info on available modules
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.
Variable
Type
Description
line
string
Line for which script is being executed
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.
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.