Easily create Markdown tables of already structured text

• Easily create Markdown tables of already structured text
  • Features
    • Create a table reading rows first
    • Create a table reading columns first
    • Concatenate tables
    • Concatenate tables in reverse order
    • Transpose table
    • To Lines (Reverse Table)
    • To Columns (Column-Major Reverse)
  • Local development
    • Prerequisites
    • Commands
    • prepublish
      • Requirements
    • Inspect extension size
  • Known Issues
  • Contribute

Features

Create a table reading rows first

• Select your table data (each new line is one cell in the table corresponding left to right / rows)
• Use Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the Command Palette
• Type Markdown create table and confirm
• Enter the number of columns, confirm
• You should see your formatted table

Create a table reading columns first

• Select your table data (each new line is one cell in the table corresponding top to bottom / columns)
• Use Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the Command Palette
• Type Markdown: create table and confirm
• Enter the number of columns, confirm
• You should see your formatted table

Concatenate tables

• Select your tables separated by LineFeeds
• Use Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the Command Palette
• Type Markdown: concatenate tables and confirm
• You should see your tables merged into one

Concatenate tables in reverse order

• Select your tables separated by LineFeeds
• Use Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the Command Palette
• Type Markdown: concatenate tables in reverse order and confirm
• You should see your tables merged into one, but in reversed order

Transpose table

• Select your table
• Use Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the Command Palette
• Type Markdown: transpose table and confirm
• You should see your tables transposed (columns are now rows and rows are now columns)

To Lines (Reverse Table)

• Select your formatted markdown table
• Use Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the Command Palette
• Type Markdown: to lines (reverse table) and confirm
• You should see your table converted back to cell-first format (one cell per line, reading rows first)

To Columns (Column-Major Reverse)

• Select your formatted markdown table
• Use Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the Command Palette
• Type Markdown: to columns (reverse of create, column-major) and confirm
• You should see your table converted back to cell-first format (one cell per line, reading columns first)

Local development

Prerequisites

• yarn
• vscode

Commands

Install needed packages

yarn install

Run tests

yarn run test

For ui-tests and taking screenshots

yarn run ui-test

If there are missing webp animations after new functions. Adjust check_and_create_images.sh images and run

bash check_and_create_images.sh

Press F5 to open a new window with the extension loaded and all others disabled.

To generate Changelog

git-cliff -o CHANGELOG.md

prepublish

Generate vsix for upload

vsce package

Requirements

Make sure vsce is installed. For nixos this use the provided flake with direnv or run

nix develop

Inspect extension size

vsce ls --tree

Known Issues

• Error management could be improved.
• If you want empty table cells during create table, you should use a special string and replace it afterwards.
• Only :--- is supported at the moment
• Linefeed is \n at the moment, no \r\n support.

Contribute

Have a look at Known Issues or raise your own. This is my first public open source project, so I appreciate hints and help!