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Some useful functions for efficiency.

1. English & Chinese Punctuation

• Efficiency: Convert To English Punctuation: Converts all punctuation to English punctuation
• Efficiency: Convert To Chinese Punctuation: Converts all punctuation to Chinese punctuation

2. Markdown Helper

• Efficiency: Generate Markdown Table:

Convert selected text to a Markdown table or generate a default table. e.g., Select Text Name, Age will change it to the following:

| Name | Age |
| ---- | --- |
|      |     |

3. File Merge

• Merge multiple files into one file, which is useful for providing context for Ask AI.
• Combined with this Google Chrome extension chatgpt-cli-extension to query ChatGPT with multiple files.

Settings:

• efficiency.openAfterMerge: Open the merged file after merging; default is true
• efficiency.shellAfterMerge: Shell to execute after merging paths. Leave empty to disable. ${file} will be replaced with the merged file path.

Commands:

• Efficiency: Create Merge Config File: Create a merge configuration file for the Merge Paths To Single File command.
• Efficiency: Merge Paths To Single File: Merge all paths in the configuration file into a single file.

4. Misc

4.1. Open External Shell

Settings:

• efficiency.defaultShell: Default shell command to open an external terminal; default is sh.exe --login -i

Commands:

• efficiency.openExternalShellByWorkspaceFolder: Open an external shell by workspace folder
• efficiency.openExternalShellByCurrentFile: Open an external shell by current file

4.2. Execute Shell Command

Bind a shell command to a keybinding, for example:

{
  "key": "alt+shift+1",
  "command": "efficiency.execShellCommand",
  "args": {
    "silent": true,
    "shell": "echo ${file}"
  }
}

Supported variables:

Name	Description
${workspaceFolder}	The workspace folder of the current file
${file}	The current file path
${fileDirname}	The current file’s directory
${fileBasename}	The current file name
${fileBasenameNoExtension}	The current file name without extension
${selectionFile}	The file which contains the selected text
${selection}	The selected text or the text expanded at cursor

4.3. Auto Change Windows Path Separator

Automatically change the Windows path separator when pasting paths.

Settings:

• efficiency.pastePathConvert.enabled: Enable automatic change of the path separator when pasting paths; default is true

4.4. Custom Shell Command List

• Configure efficiency.customShellCommands in settings. Example:

"efficiency.customShellCommands": [
  {
    "name": "Open Notepad",
    "description": "Open Notepad",
    "shell": "notepad.exe",
    "silent": true
  },
  {
    "name": "Open Shell by Current Workspace Folder",
    "description": "Open shell by current workspace folder",    
    "shell": "pwsh.exe -NoLogo -Command \"cd ${workspaceFolder};\"",
  }
]

• Run command: Efficiency: Show Custom Shell Command List