Binary Plist

A Visual Studio Code extension that enables editing of binary property list files as XML text. When you open a binary plist file, it automatically converts it to XML format and opens it in a standard text editor.

The extension uses VS Code's Custom Editor API to seamlessly handle the conversion between binary and XML formats. When you save the XML file, it's automatically converted back to binary format.

The extension is cross-platform but primarily uses the macOS plutil binary for conversion, with Python plistlib as an alternative if available. The Node.js package simple-plist is used as a fallback, though due to JavaScript not having a float type, real values that are whole numbers will be cast to integer types (a warning dialog is shown first).

Tests

Tests can be run with npm test or running Extension Tests in the Visual Studio Code debugger.