Filter Text extension for Visual Studio Code

This extension filters selected text through an external shell command inplace or into temp file. It brings the power of Unix commands such as sort and uniq into your VS Code editor.

Usage

Select text that you want to filter.
Press Ctrl+K Ctrl+F (⌘K ⌘F on macOS).
- Alternatively, press F1 and run the command named Filter Text Inplace.
Type shell command like sort -r and press enter.
It replaces the selected text with the text from stdout of the command.

NOTE

If you didn't select anything, it simply inserts the result text at the current cursor position.
If you selected Filter Text command it opens temp editor with the result.

Filter selected text

Keybindings

It is possible to map specific commands to key bindings. Example usage in keybindings.json:

{
    "key": "shift+alt+l",
    "command": "extension.filterTextInplace",
    "args": { "cmd": "sort" }
}

Configuration

Commands can be predefined in the settings.json as follows:

"filterText.commandList": [
    {
        "name": "Sort unique",
        "description": "Sorts and find the unique entries",
        "command": "sort | uniq"
    },
    {
        "name": "Columnize CSV",
        "description": "Columnize comma separated values",
        "command": "column -s \",\" -t"
    },
    {
        "name": "XML lint",
        "description": "Run the command through xmllint",
        "command": "xmllint --format -"
    }
]

Changes

07/24/2019: v0.0.15 - Predefined commands via settings.json. Add macOS keybinding to fix Delete All Right
03/31/2019: v0.0.14 - Fix used document filter flag when false
03/16/2019: v0.0.13 - Implemented passing in the command as an argument
03/14/2019: v0.0.12 - Improvement: Add option to always use a file's dir as current working
08/30/2018: v0.0.11 - Better working directry handling.
07/28/2018: v0.0.10 - Better error reporting. In case command exited with failure status, and leave only error messages without stdout, don't change text selection but pop an error message instead. When filter on empty document (zero bytes), need to close stdin to avoid child process reading stdin never terminate (dangling).
07/22/2018: v0.0.9 - Added support and settings for using bash's commands or scripts
01/25/2018: v0.0.8 - Set current working directory for the command to match the opened directory
01/14/2018: v0.0.7 - Set current working directory for the command to match the opened directory
12/25/2017: v0.0.6 - Pipe support
07/20/2017: v0.0.5 - Make temp buffer a vscode tmp doc instead of system tmp file
07/19/2017: v0.0.4 - Allow filter buffer if no selection
04/01/2017: v0.0.3 - Added ability to feed result into temp file
11/24/2015: v0.0.2 - Changed the keybindg from Ctrl+Shift+F to Ctrl+K Ctrl+F.
11/23/2015: v0.0.1 - Initial release.

License

MIT

Filter Text

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