Text Work

Do you work with text a lot? Do you want to highlight even txt files? This extension provides custom highlighting and productivity tools for .txt files (and text-work language).

Features

1. Custom Highlighting

Provides rich syntax highlighting for .txt files, treating them as text-work language.

• Keywords: status, error, run, if, else, install, cp, mv, tf, npm, npx, python, terraform, echo, git, ssh and much more.
• Colors: violet, red, green, yellow, blue.
• UUIDs: Automatically highlights UUIDs.
• Tags: Highlights @tags.
• Emails & URLs: Highlights email addresses and web links (http://, https://).
• Abbreviations: Highlights uppercase abbreviations (e.g., ABC, API) and words with underscores (e.g., SN_Global_Support).

2. Autobullet Lists

Automatically manages lists when you press Enter:

• Standard Bullets: *, -, •, ▪, ▫, ◦, ‣, ⁃ (converts * to •)
• Numbering: 1., 2. (increments numbers)
• Letters: a., b. (increments letters)
• Roman Numerals: i., ii. (increments roman numerals)
• Indentation: Maintains indentation and supports nested lists.
• Pressing Enter on an empty list item clears the line.

3. Section divider with Date/Time Insertion

• Alt+Enter: Insert current date/time separator line after the cursor.
• Shift+Alt+Enter: Insert current date/time separator line before the cursor.

Example

--- ✄ --------- 2026.01.06 14:06 -------------------

4. Mask Passwords

Password masking works by replacing characters with asterisks using a custom font. This requires installing a font family that renders bold text as asterisks. The extension automatically applies a bold style to any word followed by @pass, which triggers the custom font to mask the password.

• Add @pass after a word to mask it (e.g. mySecret @pass).
• Note: PasswordMask fonts must be installed from the fonts folder. Install at least:
  • PasswordMask-Regular.ttf
  • PasswordMask-Bold.ttf

Usage

1. Open any .txt file.
2. The language mode should automatically switch to text-work (or you can select it manually).
3. Enjoy the highlighting and productivity features!

Release Notes

0.0.12

• Add support for browser mode.
• Refactoring highlight rules.

0.0.11

• Refactored color highlighting code.
• Changed colors, brightness of some colors where decreased.

0.0.3

• Added support for Roman numeral and Letter based lists.
• Expanded keyword and color highlighting.
• General improvements and bug fixes.

0.0.1

Initial release with highlighting, autobullet, and date/time insertion features.