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Sort, Transform, Filter, Delete Duplicates, Encode, Decode, Expand and Shrink Selection, Align Selection and much more...

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Nova Text Tools

Swiss Army knife for text manipulation and selection. This extension provides 65+ commands to manipulate and select text in your files. The commands are available globally and ready to be used any time with any file. If you have text selected it will perform the actions in the current selections otherwise it will perform the action in the entire file.

Text transform commands

Make Camel Case: test string becomes testString
Make Screaming Snake Case: test string becomes TEST_STRING
Also available as Make Constant Case
Make Dot Case: test string becomes test.string
Make Header Case: test string becomes Test-String
Also available as Make Train Case
Make No Case: testString becomes test string
Make Flat Case: testString becomes teststring
Make Snake Case: Test string becomes test_string
Make Pascal Snake Case: Test string becomes Test_String
Make Camel Snake Case: Test string becomes test_String
Make Kebab Case: Test string becomes test-string
Make Screaming Kebab Case: Test string becomes TEST-STRING
Make Pascal Case: test string becomes TestString
Make Path Case: test string becomes test/string
Make Sentence Case: testString becomes Test string
Make Sponge Case: Test string becomes tEsT StRiNG
Make Capital Case: Test string becomes Test String
Make Lower Case: Test string becomes test string
Make Upper Case: Test string becomes TEST STRING
Make Title Case: step-by-step instructions becomes Step-by-Step Instructions

Text sort and filter commands

Sort Lines Alphanumerically
Sort Lines Alphanumerically Reverse
Sort Lines by length
Sort Lines by length Reverse
Delete Duplicate Lines
Delete Empty Lines
Filter Duplicate Lines (In case you only want to know the duplicate values)
Filter Duplicate Lines as New Document (same as above but result will be added in a new document)
Filter Unique Lines (In case you only want to know the unique values and exclude duplicates: example: a, b, b, c becomes a, c)
Filter Unique Lines as New Document (same as above but result will be added in a new document)
Delete Lines Matching... (Delete all lines that contains certain text or matches a regex)
Filter Lines Matching... (Filter all lines that contains certain text or matches a regex)
Filter Lines Matching as New Document (same as above but result will be added in a new document)
Reverse Lines
Randomize Lines
Join Lines (Join lines using a specified delimiter)
Split Text to Lines (Split a string to lines at the specified delimiter)
Add Lines number with multiple formats: 1, 1., 1), 1.-, 1 -, 1:, Ordinal, Roman Numerals

Text encode and decode commands

Base64 Encode
Base64 Decode
URL Encode
URL Decode
Encode Spaces: converts spaces to %20
Decode Spaces: converts %20 to spaces
Encode HTML Entities
Decode HTML Entities
HTML to Decimal Entities: Useful to obfuscate emails in HTML. it can be decoded with Decode HTML Entities
ASCII to decimal
ASCII to Hex
Text to Binary
Binary to Text
Text to ROT13
Add Slashes
Strip Slashes
Smart Quotes "I don't know you" becomes “I don’t know you”
Straighten Quotes “don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’” becomes "don't know what you mean by 'glory'"
Single Quotes to Double Quotes
Single Quotes to Backticks
Double Quotes to Single Quotes
Double Quotes to Backticks
Quotes to Backticks
Insert Non-breaking Space

Selection commands

Select Lines Matching... (Selects lines that contains certain text or matches a regex)
Select Words Matching... (Select all strings that contains certain text or matches a regex)
Select All Ocurrences (grabs your currently selected text and will select all ocurrences in the file)
Selection Expand (Expand the current selection control+option+right)
Selection Shrink (Shrink the current selection control+option+left)
Selection Align (Planned)

To learn more please checkout the examples below.

Wrap and Append/Prepend

Wrap Each Line With... (for example: <li>$1</li>, read more below.)
Add Text At Beginning of Lines... (adds at the beginning of each line the text you entered)
Add Text At Ends of Lines... (adds at the end of each line the text you entered)

Generate Commands

Generate UUID
Generate Fake Data (Names, Emails, Phones, Credit Cards, etc. Still working on it but definetly will be added)
Generate Dummy File (Quickly create any file with any extension and size, read more below.)

Numbers

Add All Numbers (View the examples below)
Substract All Numbers (View the examples below)

JSON

JSON String Parse (Pretty print a JSON encoded string with support for serialized strings, this way you can easily print a serialized array from a database)

How to use the commands?

Easy, there are several ways.

You can invoke the commands using the Commands Palette
You can right click your file and you will see a "Text Tools" menu that contains all the available commands
You can access the tools from the Editor Menu -> Text Tools
You can also configure a Key Binding for the command you use the most for exaple Select All Ocurrences

Mastering commands with Matching...

This is an advanced way to filter by entering a simple query or a regular expression, this works for command that includes in it's name Matching... for example: Delete Lines Matching..., Filter Lines Matching..., Select Lines Matching, etc. Here are some examples of how to use it.

Filter with a simple query:

Having the following text, if we for example call the command "Filter Lines Matching..." and we enter gmail it will leave only the lines that contains gmail

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
okuneva.gerhard@yahoo.com
miracle47@olson.org
uruecker@kemmer.com
lulu.gerhold@yahoo.com
xfranecki@gmail.com

result will be:

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
xfranecki@gmail.com

Filter lines that begins with:

To match lines at the beggining, when calling the command (for example "Filter Lines Matching...") we just need to enter our query starting with a ^ so if we enter ^ma

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
okuneva.gerhard@yahoo.com
miracle47@olson.org
uruecker@kemmer.com
matilda.qkieu@gmail.com
lulu.gerhold@yahoo.com

result will be:

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
matilda.qkieu@gmail.com

Filter lines that ends with:

To match lines that ends with, when calling the command (for example "Filter Lines Matching...") we just need to enter our query ending with a $ so if we enter org$

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
miracle47@olson.org
doggyhelp@welovedogs.org.xyz
lulu.gerhold@yahoo.com

result will be:

miracle47@olson.org

Filter lines that DO NOT contain certain text:

To match lines that do not contain some text, when calling the command (for example "Filter Lines Matching...") we just need start our query with a ! so if we enter !gmail.com we are basically saying keep only lines that do not contain gmail.com

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
miracle47@olson.org
doggyhelp@welovedogs.org.xyz
almendra.gerhold@gmail.com

result will be:

miracle47@olson.org
doggyhelp@welovedogs.org.xyz

Filter lines with regular expressions:

You can use the power of regular expressions to filter lines for example if you filter using @we.+dogs\.org we can return lines that have @we followed by any amount of characters followed by dogs.org

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
doggyhelp@welovedogs.org
miracle47@olson.org
humanfrinds@wecarealotfordogs.org

result will be:

doggyhelp@welovedogs.org
humanfrinds@wecarealotfordogs.org

Select Ocurrences Matching...

You can use this to quickly make selections by using a regex or regular text for example:

# Given the following code
class Foo(object):
    def some(self, arg):
        self.bar = arg
        self.baz = arg + self.smth

    def on_done(self, rx):
        self.view = x

    def on_change(self, rx):
        self.view = x

We can invoque the "Select Ocurrences Matching..." and we can enter def to select all ocurrences of def, we can also use a regular expression for example def (\w+)$self, rx$ this will select on_done and on_change

If you use regex and there's capture groups then only the groups will be selected.

Wrap Each Line With

With this command you can wrap each line with any text you want, you can use $1 as placeholder to represent the line content, for example: <li>$1</li>

Duncan Prewett
Ernesto Gladi
Wava Fodor
Annamarie Dianei

result will be:

<li>Duncan Prewett</li>
<li>Ernesto Gladi</li>
<li>Wava Fodor</li>
<li>Annamarie Dianei</li>

Join Lines

You can join lines with any delimiter you want, for example, if you use a comma as delimiter.

Duncan Prewett
Ernesto Gladi

result will be:

Duncan Prewett,Ernesto Gladi

Split Text to Lines

You can split text with any delimiter you want, for example, if you use a comma as delimiter.

Duncan Prewett,Ernesto Gladi

result will be:

Duncan Prewett
Ernesto Gladi

JSON String Parse

Really usefull to pretty print some json string, for example:

{"name":"John", "age":30, "car":null}

result will be:

{
  "name": "John",
  "age": 30,
  "car": null
}

It also works for serialized strings in case you grab the value from a database and quickly need to inspect it's content.

s:60:"{"product":"Awesome Product", "price": 200, "shipping":null}";

result will be:

{
  "product": "Awesome Product",
  "price": 200,
  "shipping": null
}

Numbers

You can easily add or substract all the numbers in your document, each value must be in it's own line, if the line contains other text it will be removed to leave only the numbers. Important: for now it only supports numbers with comma as thousand separator and dot as decimal separator

130.23
Price $2,000.00
Discount 40

result will be:

2170.23

Generate Dummy File

You can create dummy files to test API's, file uploads, etc. The file will be created at the root of your project, with the filename and size provided. You can call the command from the command palette or from the menu Extensions -> Generate Dummy File

The file name can be anything for example:

myfile (with no extension)
myfile.text
myfile.mp4
myfile.zip
myfile.pdf
myfile.csv
...etc

The file size can be written in multiple ways, it's case insensitive and spaces are ignored.

1500 (if only a number it's entered it will be interpreted as bytes so in this case 1500 bytes)
500kb or 500 kb or 500 kilobytes
200mb or 200 mb or 200 megabytes
2gb or 2 gb or 2 gigabytes
...etc

Have an idea for another tool?

If you have one in mind do not hestiate to share it with us, if it can help a lot of people we'll surely implement it.

Expand selection is a heavily modified version of the vscode extension expand region and sublime expand region

Release Notes

Version 3.2.4

Fixed: Occurrences command typo
Updated: README

Version 3.2.3

Improved: Code improvements

Version 3.2.2

Fixed: Delete Lines Matching not working

Version 3.2.1

Fixed: Error when replacing multiple selections and the new text was shorter than the original

Version 3.2.0

New: Make Train Case as an alias for Make Header Case
New: Make Screaming Snake Case as an alias for Make Constant Case
New: Make Pascal Snake Case
New: Make Camel Snake Case
New: Make Screaming Kebab Case
New: Make Flat Case
Updated: Make Param Case has been renamed to Make Kebab Case
Updated: README

Thank's to @guillaumealgis for the PR

Version 3.1.0

New: Text to rot13
Updated: README

Version 3.0.9

Fixed: Camel Case not working correctly for multiple selections

Version 3.0.8

Fixed: Multiple selections stopped working after Nova 9
Updated: README

Version 3.0.7

updated: README

Version 3.0.6

updated: README

Version 3.0.5

Updated: Deactivated Align because it's not ready yet for public use.

Version 3.0.4

Updated: README Added coorect command for expand and shrink selection control+option+right and control+option+left

Version 3.0.3

Improved: Added support for older Mac OS versions
Fixed: Respect left whitespace after sorting lines and adding line numbers, first and last line.

Version 3.0.2

Improved: PHP selection expand
Fixed: Extension stopped working on some Nova Installations
Fixed: Respect left whitespace after reversing lines, first and last line.

Version 3.0.1

Improved: Python and JS Objects selection expand
Updated: README

Version 3.0.0

New: Selection Expand (Still in progress) (Tested with HTML, CSS, Less, Sass, Javascript, Python, PHP)
New: Selection Shrink (Still in progress)
Fixed: Respect left whitespace in Add Text At Beginning of Lines command

Version 2.1.1

Fixed: Removed duplicate command
Fixed: Respect left whitespace in Wrap Each Line With command

Version 2.1.0

New: Text to Binary
New: Binary to Text
New: HTML to Decimal Entities
New: ASCII to Decimal
New: ASCII to Hex
New: Insert Non-breaking space
Updated: Dummy File limit set to 30GB just in case

Version 2.0.0

New: Filter Unique Lines
New: Generate Dummy File
New: Regex support for "Select Occurrences Matching...", "Select Lines Matching..." "Filter Lines Matching...", etc.
New: Single Quotes to Double Quotes
New: Single Quotes to Backticks
New: Double Quotes to Single Quotes
New: Double Quotes to Backticks
New: Added separators and group tools list to make it easier to identify them
Fixed: Make Title Case doesn't work on UPPERCASE string #4

Version 1.1.1

New: Split Text to Lines
New: Fake Data Generator (Full Names, Address, Credit Cards, Emails, Phones and much more.)
New: Generate UUID
Updated ReadMe with more information about how to use the extension

Version 1.1.0

Fixed an error with select all occurrences
Updated ReadMe

Version 1.0.0

Initial release