Source Selection Syntax

Short simple syntax for selecting source code

10:3-10:14
/path/to/file.txt:12
/path/to/file.txt:15:4-15:12,18:6-18:13
/path/to/file.txt:56:8;/path/to/other/file.txt:93:12

Syntax

You can make several selection's at once by separating them with semi-colons ;.

selection
selection;selection
selection;selection;selection;...

selection

Each selection can either be:

• A filepath
• A filepath and some positions
• Some positions

filepath
filepath:positions
positions

filepath

A filepath must either be:

• Relative: Starting with a ./
• Absolute: Starting with a /

./relative/path/to/file.txt
/absolute/path/to/file.txt

positions

position
position,position
position,position,position,...

position

location
location-location

location

line
line:column

Library

Install

yarn add source-selection-syntax

Usage

const {
  parseSelections,
  printSelections,
  parseSelection,
  printSelection,
  parsePositions,
  printPositions,
  parsePosition,
  printPosition,
  parseLocation,
  printLocation,
} = require('source-selection-syntax');

let parsed = parseSelections("./file.txt:1:1-2:2,3:3-4:4;./file.txt:5:5-6:6");
// [{
//   "filepath": "./file.txt",
//   "positions": [
//     { "start": { "row": 1, "column": 1 }, "end": { "row": 2, "column": 2 } },
//     { "start": { "row": 3, "column": 3 }, "end": { "row": 4, "column": 4 } }
//   ]
// }, {
//   "filepath": "./file.txt",
//   "positions": [
//     { "start": { "row": 5, "column": 5 }, "end": { "row": 6, "column": 6 } }
//   ]
// }]

printSelections(parsed); // => "./file.txt:1:1-2:2,3:3-4:4;./file.txt:5:5-6:6"