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boxedit

Altalk Ltd.

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editor commands for box-selected text
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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boxedit

This extension can be used for editing ASCII art or text based field map of RPG-like game.

Usage example

  1. Open text file by default text editor.
  2. Click upper-left corner. Then, hold Alt+Shift and click bottom-right corner. (This is the standard vscode feature to select box-shaped text)
  3. Press Alt+C to make boxedit select the text. (background color become purple)
  4. Hold Alt and click any where to move the selected text.
  5. Or press Alt+Up, Alt+Down, Alt+Left, Alt+Right to move it.
  6. Press alt+Enter to paste the selected text.

boxedit-mapedit

Features

If you do the same by normal vscode, you may feel difficult to keep the box shaped structure of text because vscode always insert the pasted text.

  • Suppose as if the purple text is a floating sheet. You can move it around with out changing the underlining text.
  • You can flip the purple text horizontally or vertically.
  • CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) character is treated appropriately so that each of these character occupies 2 ascii characters width.

License

Copyright (c) Altalk Ltd. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the MIT License.

Release Notes

0.2.0

Screen shot added.

0.1.0

Alpha version.

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