🔧 ALTKit – A Versatile Text Toolkit for VSCode
ALTKit is a powerful and lightweight Visual Studio Code extension designed to help your workflow with a rich set of text manipulation utilities — all accessible via a convenient command palette or keybinding.
This extension was partially written with the help of AI (Gemini).
🚀 Features
🔤 Text Transformations
To Camel Case – Convert to camelCase.To Upper Case / To Lower CaseCapitalize – Capitalize each word.Join lines — Join multiple lines using comma separator.Clean text — Remove double spaces, trim, ….Slugify — Converts text into a URL-friendly slug: lowercase, hyphens for spaces, and removes special characters.Pad left / right — Add spaces or characters to the left or right to reach a desired length. Ex: 1 can become 001.
🧠 Utilities
Eval JavaScript – Evaluate selected JavaScript.Shuffle – Shuffle characters, words, or lines.Reverse — Reverse order of characters, words, or lines.Enquote — Enquote strings in simpleQuotes or doubleQuotes taking care of escaping. Ideal for use with Join Lines.Toggle Selection Stats in Status Bar – View stats like word count, line count, and numeric figures (sum, avg, min, max).Increment Selection – Increment numbers or letters in the selection. E.g. 1, 1, 1 becomes 1, 2, 3, or B, X, Z becomes B, C, D.Generate UUID – Instantly create a universally unique identifier.Color Conversion — Conversion between RGB(A) <-> HEX <-> HSL, and a Toggle color format to "switch" between formats.CSS Prettify - Beautify CSS code to ensure proper indentation and line breaks.Strip Markdown — Remove all Markdown tags.Strip HTML – Remove all HTML tags and keep only the text. DOM-Level operation, ignore script & style.HTML Prettify - Formats HTML code by adding proper indentation, line breaks, and organizing elements.HTML De-entities – Convert HTML entities to readable characters.HTML to Markdown / Markdown to HTML Convert HTML to Markdown & Markdown to HTML.
🔁 Encoding & Decoding
Base64 Encode / Base64 DecodeURL Encode / URL Decode
🔐 Hashing / Crypto
MD5, SHA1, SHA256 – Compute secure hashes of selected text.AESEncrypt / AESDecrypt — Encrypt or decrypt a text using AES-256-CBC.
Insert current date/time — Insert current ISO date/time.Insert Current Timestamp / Insert Current Milli TimestampConvert Timestamp to Date / Convert Date to Timestamp
📄 JSON Helpers
JSON Prettify – Format JSON nicely.JSON Minify – Minify selected JSON.JSON Stringify — Stringify the selection to a JSON.
🔠 Line Operations
Sort Lines (Ascending / Descending)De-duplicate uniq Lines – Remove duplicates.De-duplicate uniq Lines (Table view) – Display frequency stats per line.Filter / Filter out — Filter lines using simple text match or regex.
✨ Generate Random Text
Random String (15 chars)Random String (30 chars)
⌨️ Usage
Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P on Mac) and type ALTKit to see a list of available commands.
Or use the default keybinding to access all commands quickly:
- Windows/Linux:
Ctrl + Shift + 9
- Mac:
Cmd + Shift + 9
📸 Status Bar Stats
Toggle selection statistics in the status bar to get quick insights into:
- Number of lines and words
- Stats over the numeric values selected: count, sum, average, min, max
✨ Inspiration
This extension was inspired by the excellent Swissknife by Luis Fontes. I had the pleasure of contributing to Swissknife by writing a few scripts for it.
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