Proximus (Quick Open from Text)

Prefill the quick open dialog with the first text selection in the active editor, or with text extracted from around the current cursor position via configurable regex, with an optional set of transformations applied.

Available via right-click menu as Quick Open from Text or via platform-dependent keyboard shortcut:

Platform	Shortcut
Windows	ctrl+win+p
Mac	cmd+alt+p
Linux	ctrl+meta+p

Configuration

{
    "proximus.regex": "[\\w\\-]+",
    "proximus.trimLeft": "",
    "proximus.trimRight": "",
    "proximus.transform": "none",
    "proximus.prefix": "",
    "proximus.suffix": ""
}

How it Works

Proximus performs the following operations before showing the quick open dialog:

1. Extract Text

If one or more selections exist in the current editor, Proximus uses the first, otherwise it executes proximus.regex at the current cursor position and uses the resulting text.

Note: Regex strings provided in JSON likely require additional escaping to be correctly decoded and parsed. The default value of [\\w\\-]+ is a good example, as each backslash used to escape the next character requires an escaping backslash to persist through the JSON decode process, which means the default value will become [\w\-]+ when passed to the Regex(...) constructor.

2. Trim Left

Proximus sorts the list of strings provided in proximus.trimLeft from longest to shortest, then tests each against the extracted text. If the extracted text begins with the given string, the string is removed from the start of the extracted text and Proximus moves to the next stage.

Note: This stage only removes the first matching string from the provided list, ordered by length.

3. Trim Right

Proximus sorts the list of strings provided in proximus.trimRight from longest to shortest, then tests each against the extracted text. If the extracted text ends with the given string, the string is removed from the end of the extracted text and Proximus moves to the next stage.

Note: This stage only removes the first matching string from the provided list, ordered by length.

4. Transform Case

Proximus transforms the extracted text from its current case to the provided in proximus.transform by utilizing a subset of the change-case library.

The available options for proximus.transform are as follows:

Value	Function
none	N/A
camelCase	camelCase
PascalCase	pascalCase
snake_case	snakeCase
kebab-case	paramCase
path/case	pathCase
dot.case	dotCase
no case	noCase

Any invalid value will be treated as none and case transformation will be skipped.

5. Add Prefix & Suffix

Proximus adds the value of proximus.prefix to the start of the extracted text and the value of proximus.suffix to the end of the extracted text.