VSCode Advanced New File

Inspired by Sublime's AdvancedNewFile plugin, this adds the ability to create files anywhere in your workspace.

Forked from Nick Giancola's awesome original.

Features

• Fuzzy-matching autocomplete to create new file relative to existing path (thanks to JoeNg93 for making it faster)
• Create new directories while creating a new file
• Create a directory instead of a file by suffixing the file path with / as in somedirectory/ to create the directory (thanks to maximilianschmitt)
• Ignores gitignored and workspace files.exclude settings.
• Additional option of adding advancedNewFile.exclude settings to workspace settings just like native files.exlude except it explicitly effects AdvancedNewFile plugin only. (thanks to Kaffiend)
• Control the order of top convenient options ("last selection", "current file", etc) via config setting advancedNewFile.convenienceOptions
• Brace expansion - expand braces into multiple files. Entering index.{html,css} will create and open index.html and index.css. (thanks to chuckhendo and timlogemann)
• Opt in or out of using local Git ignores to control which folders to display.

Configuration Example

"advancedNewFile.exclude": {
  "node_modules": true,
  "node_modules_electron": true,
  "dev": true,
  "dist": true
},
"advancedNewFile.showInformationMessages": true,
"advancedNewFile.convenienceOptions": ["last", "current", "root"],
"advancedNewFile.expandBraces": false,
"advancedNewFile.useGitIgnore": true

Usage

• Command palette: "Advanced New File"
• Keyboard shortcut: cmd+alt+n (Mac), ctrl+alt+n (Win, Linux)

Keybindings

You can add your own keybinding in your keybindings.json

{
  "key": "ctrl+n", // "cmd+n" on mac
  "command": "extension.advancedNewFile",
}

Notes

Because VSCode extensions don't yet have the ability to do type-ahead autocomplete within the text input box (See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/426), we work around this limitation and provide autocomplete using a two-step workflow of selecting existing path, then providing new filename/path relative to the selection.

If you encounter an error on Mac or Linux check for broken symlinks with: find . -xtype l

Contributing

1. Clone the repo
2. $ npm install
3. Add your feature or fix (in ./src/) with test coverage (in ./test/)
4. Launch the extension and do some manual testing (via Debug > Launch Extension)
5. Run the tests (via Debug > Launch Tests)
6. Run the linter: npm run lint
7. Open a PR