Box Comment plugin for VSCode

Spent some time on Saturday playing with the VSCode plugin system. The documentation is great and it's worth looking into if you're tempted to make your own plugins.

A while ago, I created a quick prototype tool to format comments into clean ASCII boxes. I ended up using it a lot more than I thought I would, so I decided to turn it into a plugin for VSCode.

Announcing

Box Comment

It generates a clean comment box using ascii box drawing characters around a selection.

# ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
# │                                                      │
# │ This is a comment of documentation (Doc Block)       │
# │                                                      │
# │ @param Request $request                              │
# │ @return Response                                     │
# │ @throws \Exception                                   │
# │                                                      │
# └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Configuration

The plugin defaults to single line box drawing and 80 characters wide. You can change these in your settings:

"box-comment.chars": {
        "tl": "╔",
        "tm": "═",
        "tr": "╗",
        "l" : "║",
        "r" : "║",
        "bl": "╚",
        "bm": "═",
        "br": "╝",
        "dl": "╠",
        "dm": "═",
        "dr": "╣"
    },
"box-comment.length": 80