Feature request - create a border around selected text

[icaine]

It would be nice to have a feature that can create a border around selected text/current line:

E.g. from this text:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Duis risus. Nullam rhoncus aliquam metus. 

To this (single user chosen symbol):

-------------------------------------------------------------
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. -
- Duis risus. Nullam rhoncus aliquam metus.                 -
-------------------------------------------------------------

Or (user chosen symbol and prefix [when comment symbol differs from the border one]):

// #############################################################
// # Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. #
// # Duis risus. Nullam rhoncus aliquam metus.                 #
// #############################################################

Optional functionalities:

• Ability to create only bottom (or any selected side) border.

  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
  =========================================================
  

• Customizable border width.

  ===============================================================
  ===============================================================
  == Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. ==
  ===============================================================
  ===============================================================
  

• Customizable padding.

  ===============================================================
  =                                                             =
  =  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.  =
  =                                                             =
  ===============================================================
  ``
  
  

• Ability to switch/replace current border symbol with other one (e.g. from - to =).

  =============
  = X = Y + Z =
  =============
  
  -------------
  - X = Y + Z -
  -------------
  

• Separate input for horizontal and vertical symbol (e.g. horizontal - and vertical |).

  -------------------------------------------------------------
  | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. |
  -------------------------------------------------------------
  

• Borders from UTF-8 chars:

  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ 
  │ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. │
  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
  ║ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. ║
  ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
  

Notes:

• It should keep indentation of the original (when this feature would be used for an actual output of some (cli) program)

[krasa]

sounds nice

I will try to use https://github.com/iNamik/java_text_tables

[krasa]

You can update and try it.

The bottom border will be added later, Switch/replace the current border hopefully too.

[icaine]

That your improvement with copying the code around is neat! Good work!

I have few UX suggestions:

• when i am on a line without any selected text create border will select all text in the file instead of that single line. It should imho behave same like switch case for example..
• padding/border_width text fields -> numeric (with +/- or something) and/or arrow keys up/down to inc/dec the value.
• keyboard shortcut for applying border (with predefined parameters) without the popup window.
  • separate shortcuts/settings for full/bottom border if you implement bottom border:)

[krasa]

Thanks, fixed.

I will try to make a saving of custom settings as a separate action.