Shelly

Edit any text in seconds. Press the hotkey, enter the pipeline, and press the Enter key.

Features

• Edit selected text using shell commands.
• Selected text is available as a "VS_SELECTED" environment variable.
• Keeps a history of the commands you've used, which you can edit and reuse.
• Use any shell: zsh, bash, sh? You name it!
• Register up to 5 keyboard shortcuts that can be invoked using keyboard shortcuts.

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Commands

• Shelly: Run command (Command ID: shelly.runCommand)

  Show command history and let you select, modify & run a command

• Shelly: Clear Command History (Command ID: shelly.clearCommandHistory)

  Clear command history

• Shelly: Run quick command 1 (Command ID: shelly.runQuickCommand1)

  Run quick command 1. You have quick commands up to 5, i.e. shelly.runQuickCommand5

Configurations

• shelly.currentDirectoryKind (default: "currentFile")

  Current directory for pipelines. If the target directory is not available, HOME directory will be used. Possible values: currentFile or workspaceRoot

• shelly.processEntireTextIfNoneSelected (default: false)

  Pipe the entire text to the pipeline if no text is selected

• shelly.favoriteCommands (default: [])

  List of commands that can be activated by quick commands. Each element must have a command ID and command. e.g:

  "shelly.favoriteCommands": [
    {
      "id": "sort-by-human-readable-size",
      "command": "sort -h"
    },
    {
      "id": "unix-ts",
      "command": "date +%s"
    },
    ...
  ]
  

• shelly.quickCommand1 (default: "")

  ID of a favorite command triggered with quick command 1. e.g. "unix-ts" of favoriteCommands config value example.

  You can add up to five quick commands, i.e. shelly.quickCommand5.

• shelly.shell.linux (default: "/bin/sh")

  The path of the shell that this extension uses on Linux

• shelly.shellArgs.linux (default: ["-c"])

  Arguments to the shell to be used on Linux

• shelly.shell.osx (default: "/bin/sh")

  The path of the shell that this extension uses on macOS

• shelly.shellArgs.osx (default: ["-c"])

  Arguments to the shell to be used on macOS

• shelly.shell.windows (default: "cmd.exe")

  The path of the shell that this extension uses on Windows

  • For PowerShell, you may set this to "pwsh"
  • For Bash on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), you may set this to "wsl"

• shelly.shellArgs.windows (default: ["/d", "/s", "/c"])

  Arguments to the shell to be used on Winows

  • For PowerShell, you may set this to ["-NoLogo", "-NoProfile", "-Command"]
  • For Bash on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), you may set this to ["bash", "-c"]

Keyboard Shortcuts

You can quickly open a command input box by registering the extension command to your keyboard shortcut settings. For example:

  { "key": "ctrl+r ctrl+r", "command": "shelly.runCommand",
                            "when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly" },
  { "key": "ctrl+r ctrl+1", "command": "shelly.runQuickCommand1",
                            "when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly" },