Justify

Justify-align plain text.

Features

• custom line width
• preserve indentation
• preserve multiline prefix
• preserve comments
• format text lists
• indent list items
• Markdown support
• LaTeX support

Demo

Align code comments:

Align code comments with custom line width:

Align markdown:

Extension Commands

The extension provides the following commands, with self-descriptive names:

• Justify file
• Justify file (using custom line width)
• Justify line
• Justify line (using custom line width)
• Justify paragraph
• Justify paragraph (using custom line width)
• Justify selection
• Justify selection (using custom line width)

The commands with custom line width will prompt the user for a line width value before executing.

Extension Settings

The setting justify.defaultLineWidth specifies the default line width used to justify text when not using custom value provided by the user via prompt.

This value can be set on a per-language basis:

{
    "justify.defaultLineWidth": 80,
    "[git-commit]": {
        "editor.rulers": [73],
        "justify.defaultLineWidth": 72,
    },
    "[plaintext]": {
        "justify.defaultLineWidth": 100,
    },
}