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Cold Open

Cold Open

Ajay Laxmi Virendra

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Generate random quotes from any category, subcategory, or character directly in your code via autocomplete or command.
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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🧊 Cold Open for VS Code

Tired of boring Lorem Ipsum? Inject legendary TV quotes, cold opens, and one-liners directly into your code. Perfect for testing, mocking data, or just keeping your sanity during late-night debugging sessions. 😎

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Quick Demo: Autocomplete

Normal Autocomplete

norma autocomplete

Mixed Autocomplete

mixed autocomplete

🚀 Features

  • Smart Autocomplete: Just type a prefix (e.g., friends3) and hit Enter. Boom. 3 quotes.
  • Chainable Syntax: Mix and match shows, characters, and counts in a single string.
  • Language Agnostic: Works in TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Markdown... basically everywhere.
  • Fully Customizable: Add your own JSON files for any show, movie, or meme you want.

⌨️ How to Use

1. The Magic Trigger

In any file, just type the category + count.

Type this: friends3
Get this: 3 random quotes from the Friends data file.

2. The "Power User" Chain 🔗

You can chain categories, subcategories, and characters together.

Type: seinfeld2george1
Result: 2 random Seinfeld quotes + 1 specific George Costanza quote.

Type: office5michael2
Result: 5 random The Office quotes + 2 specific Michael Scott quotes.

3. The Command Palette 🎨

Not a fan of typing inside the file?

  1. Press Cmd+Shift+P (or Ctrl+Shift+P).
  2. Run Cold Open: Generate.
  3. Enter your string (e.g., b99captholt1).

📂 Adding Your Own Data

Want to add quotes from Breaking Bad or SpongeBob? Easy.

  1. Go to the extension's data/ folder.
  2. Create a JSON file (e.g., breakingbad.json).
  3. Structure it like this:
{
  "season1": ["I am the danger.", "Science, b**ch!"],
  "walter": {
    "heisenberg": ["Say my name."]
  }
}

Now you can type breakingbad1 or heisenberg1! 🧪

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