Transformer

• Provides enhanced editing capabilities which operate on either current document or can pipe output to a new document.
• Most commands implement auto scoping to select current block, document or selection as the target of an operation.
  • A block refers to code that has an empty line above and below.

Features

• Unique Lines
• Unique Lines As New Document
• Filter Lines
• Filter Lines As New Document
• Sort Lines
• Sort Lines By Length
• Align To Cursor
• Align CSV
• Compact CSV
• Copy To New Document
• Select Lines
• Lines As JSON
• Trim Lines
• Count Duplicate Lines As New Document
• Macros

Unique Lines

• Removes duplicate lines from the document
• Operates on selection or current block if no selection

Unique Lines As New Document

• Unique lines are opened in a new document
• Operates on selection or current block if no selection

Filter Lines

• Keep matching lines of filter
• Operates on selection or entire document if no selection
• Filter using regex or literal

Filter Lines As New Document

• A new document is created with lines matching filter
• Gutter decorators show original line number from original document
• Operates on selection or entire document if no selection
• Filter using regex or literal
• Add lines relative to filtered lines by count and regular expression match

Sort Lines

• Sorts by column when there is a vertical stack of multiple cursors using the cursor position to determine sort text for the line.
• Operates on selection or entire document if no selection

Sort Lines By Length

• Sorts by length of the line
• Operates on selection or current block if no selection

Align To Cursor

• Aligns text right of cursor to cursor position
• Single cursor will auto expand vertically to block

Align CSV

• Aligns CSV text into columns. Can also specify custom delimiter.

Compact CSV

• Does the opposite of Align CSV, removes white space between columns.

Copy To New Document

• Copies selections to a new document
• Operates on selections or find match results or entire document

Select Lines

• Expands all current find match results or cursors to full line selections

Lines As JSON

• Converts each line to a JSON string
• Useful for easily creating snippet bodies with selected text

Trim Lines

• Remove whitespace at beginning and end of lines

Count Duplicate Lines As New Document

• Count the number of instances of each unique line

Macros

• Experimental feature to provide text editor macros as scripts