PluginStatsTransformer installs statistics
By dakara · VS Code Marketplace · Other
Filter, Sort, Unique, Reverse, Align, CSV, Line Selection and more text Transformations
Transformer has 123,229 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #2098 of 2,501 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 4.8 out of 5 from 24 ratings.
PluginStats has 4 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 19, 2026.
Rating: 4.75 / 5 from 24 ratings
About Transformer
Transformer
• Provides enhanced editing capabilities which operate on either current document or can pipe output to a new document. • Most commands implement auto scoping to select current block, document or selection as the target of an operation. • A block refers to code that has an empty line above and below.
Features
• Align CSV • Align To Cursor • Compact CSV • Copy To New Document • Count Duplicate Lines As New Document • Encode / Decode • Filter Lines As New Document • Filter Lines • Join Lines • JSON String As Text • Lines As JSON String Array • Normalize Diacritical Marks • Randomize Lines • Randomize Selections • Reverse Lines • Reverse Selections • Rotate Backward Selections • Rotate Forward Selections • Select Highlights • Select Lines • Selection As JSON String • Sort Lines By Length • Sort Lines • Sort Selections • Split Lines After • Split Lines Before • Split Lines • Trim Lines • Trim Selections • Unique Lines As New Document • Unique Lines
Unique Lines
• Removes duplicate lines from the document • Operates on selection or current block if no selection
Unique Lines As New Document
• Unique lines are opened in a new document • Operates on selection or current block if no selection
Filter Lines
• Keep matching lines of filter • Operates on selection or entire document if no selection • Filter using regex or literal
Filter Lines As New Document
• A new document is created with lines matching filter • Gutter decorators show original line number from original document • Operates on selection or entire document if no selection • Filter using regex or literal • Add lines relative to filtered lines by count and regular expression match • Parent Levels add context by indentation level. Similar to vscode folding levels. • Examples: • 0 will include all siblings of the matched lines. Where a sibling is determined by being at the same indentation level next to the matched line. • 1 will include all siblings + the parent siblings ( one less indentation level )
Sort Lines
• Sorts by column when there is a vertical stack of multiple cursors using the cursor position to determine sort text for the line. • Operates on selection or entire document if no selection
Sort Lines By Length
• Sorts by length of the line • Operates on selection or current block if no selection
Align To Cursor
• Aligns text right of cursor to cursor position • Single cursor will auto expand vertically to block
Align CSV
• Aligns CSV text into columns. Can also specify custom delimiter.
Compact CSV
• Does the opposite of Align CSV, removes white space between columns.
Copy To New Document
• Copies selections to a new document • Operates on selections or find match results or entire document
Select Lines
• Expands all current find match results or cursors to full line selections
Lines As JSON String Array
• Converts each line to a JSON string • Useful for easily creating snippet bodies with selected text
Selection As JSON String
• Transform all contents of selection as a single JSON String
Trim Lines
• Remove whitespace at beginning and end of lines
Randomize Lines
• Randomize the order of selected lines
Reverse Lines
• Reverse the order of selected lines
Count Duplicate Lines As New Document
• Count the number of instances of each unique line
Encode / Decode
• Encode Base64 • Decode Base64 • Encode URL Segment • Decode URL Segment • Encode x-www-form-urlencoded • Decode x-www-form-urlencoded • Hash MD5
JSON String As Text
• unescapes a JSON string to text
Split Lines
• split lines using specified delimeter
Split Lines After
• splits lines after the delimeter while keeping the delimeter
Split Lines Before
• splits lines before the delimeter while keeping the delimeter
Join Lines
• join lines using specified delimeter
Select Highlights
• make selections of all text highlighted in the editor
Randomize Selections
• replace selections with random order of selected text
Reverse Selections
• replace selections with reverse order of selected text
Sort Selections
• replace selections with sorted order of selected text
Trim Selections
• replace selections with trimmed selected text
Rotate Forward Selections
• rotates the order of the selections forward
Rotate Backward Selections
• rotates the order of the selections backward
Normalize Diacritical Marks
• transforms accented characters to non-accented versions
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
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Charts
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Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dakara.transformer. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.