Pancho

Clean, format and transform text like Notepad++

Language: English · Español

Contents: Install · Screenshots · Features · Top 10 · Why Pancho? · Privacy · How to use · Commands · Demos · Shortcuts · Settings · Contributing

Screenshots

Regenerate these with npm run capture (see scripts/capture).

Install

• VS Code Marketplace: Pancho++
• Open VSX: undaniels/pancho-plus-plus
• Or run ext install undaniels.pancho-plus-plus.

Features

• 149 commands available from the context menu
• Command hub (Pancho: Show command menu) with categories, shortcuts and recently used
• Compare with Clipboard (Pancho: Compare with Clipboard): editable side-by-side diff between the clipboard and the selection (or whole file)
• Multi-cursor & multi-selection aware: transforms apply per cursor/selection
• Repeat last command (Ctrl+Shift+.)
• Diff preview for commands that delete or reorder content (on by default)
• Activity Bar view with your Favorites, Recent commands and Pipelines
• Pipelines: chain transforms in order, preview the result, save and share them
• Works in the browser (vscode.dev), on the desktop and on Remote/WSL/Containers
• Settings Sync for favorites, pipelines, saved regex and macros
• Smart actions: one picker for the content under the cursor (JWT, JSON, CSV, color, Base64, timestamp)
• Content-aware hover with one-click actions
• Column mode: insert / delete / copy / paste column blocks
• Macros: record, replay, save and export/import command sequences
• Inline hover info: decode JWTs, timestamps, colors and Base64 just by hovering
• Quick fixes (Code Actions): detect JWT / JSON / CSV / hex and convert in place
• Regex tester panel with live matches, groups and replace preview
• Clipboard history (Ctrl+Alt+V) and sort by column
• Safe regex engine with timeout (no more frozen windows)
• Status bar counters (lines, words, characters)
• Keyboard shortcuts for frequent operations
• Settings for tab size, EOL and more
• English & Spanish UI (follows VS Code's display language)

Top 10 commands

New here? These are the ones people reach for the most:

More examples in docs/demos.md.

Why Pancho?

• Notepad++ muscle memory in VS Code: the same text operations, in the context menu.
• Context aware: hover a JWT/timestamp/color to see it decoded; select JSON/CSV/JWT and get one-click conversions from the lightbulb.
• Safe by design: no network, no telemetry, regex in a time-limited worker thread, AES-256-GCM.
• Small but complete: one extension for formatting, escaping, hashing, encoding, CSV, macros and columns.

Privacy & security

• No telemetry, no network access. Pancho runs entirely locally and never sends your text anywhere.
• Safe regex engine. User-provided regular expressions run in an isolated worker thread with a timeout, so a malicious or accidental catastrophic pattern cannot freeze VS Code.
• Authenticated encryption. AES encryption uses AES-256-GCM with a random salt per message (legacy CBC data is still readable).
• Workspace trust aware. Pancho declares limited support for untrusted workspaces and requires no network access.

How to use

1. Select text (or don't, to apply to the whole document)
2. Right-click → Pancho
3. Pick a category and a command

Commands

The 149 commands are grouped into seven categories so the context menu stays short: Edit, Lines, Text & Case, Convert, Escape, Dev tools and Macros & Columns, plus the Command hub.

Full list with descriptions: docs/commands.md (English) · docs/commands.es.md (Español).

VS Code integrations

Some commands keep Pancho's menu entry and shortcut but delegate to VS Code's native implementation (consistency and multi-cursor support): uppercase / lowercase / title case, comment & block comment, tabs↔spaces, indent/outdent, move / duplicate / insert line, sort A–Z / Z–A and join lines.

Keyboard shortcuts

These are the only shortcuts Pancho binds by default. Everything else is two clicks away in the context menu or the command hub, so Pancho does not shadow VS Code's own keys (Ctrl+Shift+D is Show Run and Debug, Ctrl+Shift+S is Save As, Ctrl+Shift+L/T/W/N are editor/sorting commands, …).

A couple still collide at the OS level on some platforms (Ctrl+Shift+U is "insert Unicode" on Linux). If that bothers you, remap them in Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+K Ctrl+S) by searching for pancho.

Settings

Status bar counters

Pancho shows L:X P:Y C:Z (Lines, Words, Characters) in the status bar. When there is a selection it switches to Sel L:X P:Y C:Z so you can tell selection counts from document totals at a glance.

Demos

Step-by-step examples (hover, quick fixes, regex panel, columns, clipboard, sorting, macros): docs/demos.md.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome at github.com/undaniel/pancho.

npm install
npm run compile   # typecheck
npm test          # unit tests
npm run l10n:check
npm run bundle    # build dist/

Then press F5 in VS Code to launch the Extension Development Host. See CHANGELOG.md for release history.

License

MIT © Daniel Carrasco

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