Sip is a VS Code extension that displays a plain-text book alongside whatever you're working on — tucked into the status bar, rendered as ghost text at the end of a line, disguised as code comments, or surfaced in the native hover popup. Page size is measured in columns, so CJK and Latin books both wrap correctly.
Getting started
Run Sip: Open Book from the command palette and pick a .txt file.
Pick a reading mode (Sip: Toggle Reading Mode or the sip.readingMode setting).
Page through with Ctrl+[ / Ctrl+] on macOS, or Alt+[ / Alt+] on Windows / Linux / WSL.
Your position is saved per book path and survives reloads.
Reading modes
Mode
What it looks like
statusBar
One line packed into the status bar — most discreet.
inlineGhost
Faded italic text at the end of the current line, like a Copilot hint.
pseudoComment
Several lines of book text rendered as fake code comments just below the cursor.
hoverTooltip
Current page shown in the native hover popup when you mouse over code.
All modes share the same paginator, so switching mode keeps the same text in view.
Max display width in columns; CJK characters count as 2.
sip.showChapterInStatusBar
true
Show chapter name in the status-bar tooltip. Only used by statusBar.
sip.pseudoCommentLines
3
Number of comment lines to show. Only used by pseudoComment.
sip.hoverTooltipLines
4
Number of body lines in the hover popup. Only used by hoverTooltip.
sip.chapterDetection
auto
auto | custom | none.
sip.chapterPattern
""
Custom chapter regex, used only when detection is custom.
Commands & keybindings
The second key is the same on every platform — only the modifier differs (Ctrl on macOS, Alt on Windows / Linux / WSL). On macOS, Alt/Option is a Unicode dead-key, so the bindings use Ctrl instead.
