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.bxt highlighting

.bxt highlighting

Robert Sandiford

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Readable markdown-style highlighting for .bxt text files.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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.bxt highlighting

Highlighted text files. Write notes or docs in .bxt, .hxt, .htxt or .btxt and they read like a formatted document while staying plain text.

Markdown syntax is understood, but styled for reading rather than editing:

  • Headings are larger and coloured by level
  • Emphasis and inline code stand out
  • The markup itself — **, backticks, #, link brackets — fades into the background
  • Link targets are clickable
  • Lines wrap by default

Nothing is hidden or reformatted. The file on disk is exactly what you typed.

Settings

  • bxtHighlight.boldStyle — colour, colour-bold, bold or plain
  • bxtHighlight.headingScale — how much larger headings get; 0 keeps them body-sized
  • bxtHighlight.largeHeadings — turn heading sizing off entirely
  • bxtHighlight.dimMarkers — whether the markup fades
  • bxtHighlight.applyToMarkdown — apply all of this to .md files too; off by default
  • bxtHighlight.entryIdPattern — regex for ids to pick out, such as FE-R21
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