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).
Project documentation
The project purpose, plain-language explanation of the highlighting rules, file
map, and maintenance notes are available in Ukrainian:
Features
1. Custom Highlighting
Provides rich syntax highlighting for .txt files, treating them as text-work language.
- Color words: Add each custom word to the color group where you want to see it. For example,
prod and done are green; dev is yellow; qa and uat are violet.
- 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.
- Renumbering: Inserting a numeric item shifts subsequent items on the same level.
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.ttfPasswordMask-Bold.ttf
Usage
- Open any
.txt file.
- The language mode should automatically switch to
text-work (or you can select it manually).
- 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.
