PasteRegEx README

PasteRegEx is a simple extension which applies Regular Expressions (RegEx) to text selected in an active editor.

Features

After you select some text in an editor you can then select a PasteRegEx command and it will apply the Regular Expression to that selected text.

This is a list of the current regular expressions that are currently implemented. They are shown in this format:

functionName
- function description
- regular expression, flags, "replacement text"
rmHangingSpaces
- This function removes all of the spaces that appear at the end of sentences
- +$, gm, ""
rmNewLines
- This function removes all of the new lines in the selection
- \r\n+|\n+|\r+, gm, " "
rmHyphenLineEnd
- This function removes all of the hyphens that appear at the end of the line
- (?<=[a-z])-$\r\n+|\n+|\r+(?=[a-z]), gm, ""
rmSentenceBreaks
- This function removes all of the newlines that appear to break up a sentence
- ([a-z])(\r\n+|\n+|\r+)(?=[a-z]), gm, "$1 "
rmExtraSpaces
- This function removes all instances of more than one space and replaces them with one space
- +, gm, " "

I do not believe there are any special requirements needed to run this extension.

There are currently no extension settings but I do hope to add some in the future.

These plans are very much a wishlist that may or may not ever be completed. Feel free to create issues and/or pull requests to add features.

existing command improvements
- allow for rmSentenceBreaks to also include certain types of punctuation between the sentences and to remove multiple new lines between sentences
change the versioning schema
add more regular expressions
- remove any curly quotes, commas, etc and replace them with the straight versions
add the ability to combine multiple regular expressions in sequence
set up webpack to reduce the size of the extension

set up a CI workflow
add the ability to choose to apply the regular expression to either the selection or the clipboard
regular expression maker
- this is a very low priority and likely not to happen without help
- this would allow you to enter a regular expression yourself and choose some options some of these options could include
  - prefix characters that will not be replaced
  - main body expression to be replaced
  - post body characters to not be replaced
  - change what characters are replacing the body of regular expression
refactor the commands to be selected from a menu rather than each one being a separate command
- I'm not sure I want this or not so I'll give it some more thought
testing (I have NO experience with software testing so this will almost certainly happen ONLY if someone else takes on the task)

I need to make sure that using the new lines command also removes all of the double spaces (I may make this a user setting later)