Supertext

Supertext provides syntax highlighting for writing notes in plain text. For the backstory, see my article Plain text knowledge base.

Features

The following are highlighted:

``heading tag
`tag
https://some-url.com
~highlighted note
2021/08/05 (date)
<<quote or code block — can spread across multiple lines>> (or “ and ”)
// (divider, must have a space on either side; or 🙼)

Example:

Syntax Settings

To customize the syntax, edit the .tmLanguage file in your VS Code extension directory. In Windows that's C:\Users\[USERNAME]\.vscode\extensions\supertext\syntaxes\supertext.tmLanguage.

Color Settings

This extension contributes settings for syntax highlighting colors. To change the colors, simply edit them in VS Code's settings.json, under "editor.tokenColorCustomizations". Here are the default settings:

"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
  "textMateRules": [
    {
      "scope": "constant.language.heading-tag.supertext",
      "settings": {
        "foreground": "#00ff9d",
        "fontStyle": "bold underline"
      }
    },
    {
      "scope": "constant.language.tag.supertext",
      "settings": {
        "foreground": "#F38D8D"
      }
    },
    {
      "scope": "constant.language.url.supertext",
      "settings": {
        "foreground": "#98d1ff"
      }
    },
    {
      "scope": "constant.language.note.supertext",
      "settings": {
        "foreground": "#F3ED72"
      }
    },
    {
      "scope": "constant.language.date.supertext",
      "settings": {
        "foreground": "#F3ED72"
      }
    },
    {
      "scope": "constant.language.quote.supertext",
      "settings": {
        "foreground": "#bda385"
      }
    },
    {
      "scope": "constant.language.divider.supertext",
      "settings": {
        "foreground": "#4aff40"
      }
    },
    {
      "scope": "text.supertext",
      "settings": {
        "foreground": "#DBDBDB"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Release Notes

1.0.1 - 1.0.3

Minor presentation fixes.

1.0.0

Initial release of Supertext.