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Regex Previewer

Regex Previewer

Christof Marti

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Regex matches previewer for JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP and Haxe in Visual Studio Code.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Features

Shows the current regular expression's matches in a side-by-side document. This can be turned on/off with Ctrl+Alt+M (⌥⌘M).

Global and multiline options can be added for evaluation with a side-by-side document through a status bar entry. This can be useful when the side-by-side document has multiple examples to match.

Regex Previewer in Action

Release Notes

0.5.0

  • Add chat participant

0.4.0

  • Also publish as web extension

0.3.0

  • Add React support (PR by @galangel)
  • Add Vue support (PR by @jombard)
  • Code cleanup

0.2.0

  • Add PHP support (PR by @ergunsh)
  • Add setting to disable the code lens (PR by @ergunsh)
  • Add more sample text (PR by @mscolnick)

0.1.0

  • Status bar item to toggle adding global and multiline flags for evaluation with example text.
  • Bugfixes

0.0.8

  • Add Haxe support (PR by @Gama11)

0.0.7

  • Several bugfixes
  • Catch up with latest release

0.0.6

  • Single toggle action to turn Regex matching on/off

0.0.5

  • Make it work on Windows again...

0.0.4

  • Allow any editor to show matches
  • Avoid storing sample file in installation directory
  • More bugfixes

0.0.3

  • More bugfixes, make it work on Windows.
  • Add icon

0.0.2

Bugfixes.

0.0.1

Initial release.

License

MIT

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