Arrange Selection

Visual Studio Code extension to sort, shuffle, reverse, or filter selected lines or characters.

Features

Arranging lines

Reversing lines: arrange-selection.reverseLines

Sorting lines: arrange-selection.sortLines & arrange-selection.sortLinesDescending

Sorting lines by line length: arrange-selection.sortLinesByLength & arrange-selection.sortLinesByLengthDescending

Shuffling lines: arrange-selection.shuffleLines

Filtering duplicate lines: arrange-selection.filterDuplicateLines

• Keeps only the first unique line(s)

Arranging characters

A character being a grapheme, so composite characters should be arranged as one.

Reverse characters: arrange-selection.reverseCharacters

Sorting characters: arrange-selection.sortCharacters & arrange-selection.sortCharactersDescending

Shuffling characters: arrange-selection.shuffleCharacters

Filtering duplicate characters: arrange-selection.filterDuplicateCharacters

• Keeps only the first unique character(s)

Command

All commands are available in both the context menu (visible only if something is selected) and the command palette (⇧+⌘+P, Ctrl+Shift+P, or F1).

Keybinds

Nothing is bind by default, however, they can be added to the corresponding command.

Extension Settings

Setting	Description
arrangeSelection.arrangeOnEmptySelection	When nothing is selected, specifies whether to arrange the entire document
arrangeSelection.arrangeAcrossMultipleSelection	When there are multiple selections, specifies whether to arrange them independently or as a whole
arrangeSelection.selectDuplicates	When filtering duplicates lines or characters, specifies whether to delete or select the duplicates
arrangeSelection.lines.ignoreIndent	When sorting lines, specifies whether to ignore whitespace to the left of each line
arrangeSelection.lines.useNaturalSortOrder	When sorting lines, specifies whether to use natural sort order
arrangeSelection.characters.ignoreLineBreaks	When arranging characters, specifies whether to skip/ignore newline control characters