regex-process-picker

A replacement for the built in VS Code command processPicker, which allows filtering for a regular expression.

Features

VS Code by default provides a command processPicker, which can be used in the launch.json file to pick the process to attach to from a list of running processes. However, this list can be quite long and usually one would need to type the name of the process to get it filtered.

This extension provides commands regex-process-picker.pickProcessMatchingRegexList<index>, which consideres the regular expression defined in settings regex-process-picker.regexList<index> for filtering the list of running processes (<index> being a number from 1 to 5).

Usage in launch.json:

{
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "<Name>",
      "type": "<Type>",
      "request": "attach",
      "processId": "${command:regex-process-picker.pickProcessMatchingRegexList<index>}"
    }
  ]
}

Requirements

None.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• regex-process-picker.regexList1: A list with regular expressions used by pickProcessMatchingRegexList1. A process will be selected if any of the regular expressions matches.
• regex-process-picker.regexList2: A list with regular expressions used by pickProcessMatchingRegexList2. A process will be selected if any of the regular expressions matches.
• regex-process-picker.regexList3: A list with regular expressions used by pickProcessMatchingRegexList3. A process will be selected if any of the regular expressions matches.
• regex-process-picker.regexList4: A list with regular expressions used by pickProcessMatchingRegexList4. A process will be selected if any of the regular expressions matches.
• regex-process-picker.regexList5: A list with regular expressions used by pickProcessMatchingRegexList5. A process will be selected if any of the regular expressions matches.
• regex-process-picker.skipUserDialogIfOnlyOneOption: Whether to skip the user dialog if only one process matches the regular expression.

Known Issues

None.

Release Notes

0.0.1

Initial release