Syntax highlighting, live preview and image pasting for the
XTXT plain-text document format.
Features
Live preview — Cmd+K V (Ctrl+K V) opens a panel beside the editor
that re-renders as you type, with records as cards, charts as inline SVG and
images resolved relative to the document
Paste an image — Cmd+V with an image on the clipboard saves it next to
the document and inserts the @image directive. Cmd+Alt+V forces it when
the platform does not surface the image to VS Code
Syntax highlighting, with @code(language="…") blocks highlighted in
their own language
Problems and squiggles — everything xtxt validate reports, in the
editor and the Problems panel as you type. Unknown directives are warnings,
never errors
Outline — headings and records, so Cmd+Shift+O, the breadcrumb bar
and the Outline view jump straight to a @task or @decision
Chart a table — a Chart this table action on every @table picks the
type, the label column and the value columns, and writes them onto the block.
The preview draws the chart and lets you read values off it and hide a series
Folding on @block / @endblock and on headings, and @comment
toggling
VS Code cannot draw images inline in a text editor — no extension API exposes
that — so the preview panel is where you see them, the same way Markdown works.
Settings
Setting
Default
Meaning
xtxt.paste.embed
false
Embed pasted images as data: URIs instead of saving them beside the document. Self-contained, ~33% larger, and it makes git diffs unreadable.
xtxt.paste.folder
"assets"
Folder for pasted images, relative to the document. A notes folder fills with screenshots quickly, so media goes into a subfolder by default. Empty writes them beside the document.
Install from source
git clone https://github.com/SaiMouli3/xtxt
cd xtxt/editors/vscode
npm install && npm run build
npx @vscode/vsce package --no-dependencies
code --install-extension xtxt-*.vsix
The preview renders with the same JavaScript SDK as the CLI's HTML export and
the browser demo, so what you see here and what xtxt export … html produces
cannot drift apart.
