Align Regex

This extension is originally based on vscode-align-by-regex

This extension aligns multiple lines of text by regular expressions. It can align anything, e.g., aligning trailing comments, key-value pairs, or any other text patterns defined by regular expressions.

Features

• Align multiple lines of text by regular expressions.
• Store regular expressions as templates for repeated use.
• Run alignment from the editor context menu.
• Support aligning multiple selections and cursors simultaneously.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• align.regex.templates: Templates for regular expressions used for alignment (i.e. "align.regex.templates": { "abc": "=|,|:"}).

  The default templates are:

  {
      "align.regex.templates": {
          "YAML_comments": "\\s+#",
          "JS_comments": "\\s+//"
      }
  }
  

Examples

Release Notes

1.0.0

• Support aligning multiple selections and cursors simultaneously.
• Run alignment from the editor context menu.