PasteRegEx README

PasteRegEx is a simple extension which applies Regular Expressions (RegEx) to text selected in an active editor.

• PasteRegEx README
  • Features
  • Requirements
  • Extension Settings
  • Plans for Future Releases
  • Known Issues
  • Release Notes

Features

After you select some text in an editor you can then select a PasteRegEx command and it will apply the Regular Expression to that selected text.

This is a list of the current regular expressions that are currently implemented. They are shown in this format:

• functionName

  • function description
  • regular expression, flags, "replacement text"

• rmHangingSpaces

  • This function removes all of the spaces that appear at the end of sentences
  • +$, gm, ""

• rmNewLines

  • This function removes all of the new lines in the selection
  • \r\n+|\n+|\r+, gm, " "

• rmHyphenLineEnd

  • This function removes all of the hyphens that appear at the end of the line
  • (?<=[a-z])-$\r\n+|\n+|\r+(?=[a-z]), gm, ""

• rmSentenceBreaks

  • This function removes all of the newlines that appear to break up a sentence
  • ([a-z])(\r\n+|\n+|\r+)(?=[a-z]), gm, "$1 "

• rmExtraSpaces

  • This function removes all instances of more than one space and replaces them with one space
  • +, gm, " "

Requirements

I do not believe there are any special requirements needed to run this extension.

Extension Settings

There are currently no extension settings but I do hope to add some in the future.

Plans for Future Releases

These plans are very much a wishlist that may or may not ever be completed. Feel free to create issues and/or pull requests to add features.

• existing command improvements

  • allow for rmSentenceBreaks to also include certain types of punctuation between the sentences and to remove multiple new lines between sentences

• change the versioning schema

• add more regular expressions

  • remove any curly quotes, commas, etc and replace them with the straight versions

• add the ability to combine multiple regular expressions in sequence

• set up webpack to reduce the size of the extension

• set up a CI workflow
• add the ability to choose to apply the regular expression to either the selection or the clipboard
• regular expression maker
  • this is a very low priority and likely not to happen without help
  • this would allow you to enter a regular expression yourself and choose some options some of these options could include
    • prefix characters that will not be replaced
    • main body expression to be replaced
    • post body characters to not be replaced
    • change what characters are replacing the body of regular expression
• refactor the commands to be selected from a menu rather than each one being a separate command
  • I'm not sure I want this or not so I'll give it some more thought
• testing (I have NO experience with software testing so this will almost certainly happen ONLY if someone else takes on the task)

Known Issues

• I need to make sure that using the new lines command also removes all of the double spaces (I may make this a user setting later)

Release Notes

see the changelog