If you have a lot of screen real estate, like wasting it, and especially if you're already rocking VS Code Pets, hold on to your udders. This extension is for you! Proudly presenting VS Code Cowsay, bringing the classic ASCII art bovine directly to your editor.
Why? I don't know... for funsies! 🐮
This extension uses the cowsay library by piuccio for generating the ASCII art cows and messages.
- Cowsay sidebar with random programming excuse messages
- Zoom in and out functionality
- Refresh button for new cow-tent
- Multiple animals in selection
- Ability to set an interval for message refresh
- Open VS Code
- Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X)
- Search for "VS Code Cowsay"
- Click Install
- Open the VS Code Cowsay sidebar from the Explorer view
- Enjoy random cow messages!
- Use the toolbar buttons to:
- Change the animal
- Refresh for a new message
- Zoom in
- Zoom out
- Think about finally decluttering extension list that pilled up over time.
This extension contributes the following commands:
vscode-cowsay.refresh: Refresh Cowsayvscode-cowsay.zoomIn: Zoom In Cowsayvscode-cowsay.zoomOut: Zoom Out Cowsayvscode-cowsay.changeAnimal: Change "animal"
VS Code 1.92.0 or higher (No idea if it works on lower versions but if you're not updating VS Code, shame on you!)
The extension contributes the following settings:
vscode-cowsay.autoRefreshInterval: Set the interval (in minutes) for automatically refreshing the Cowsay message. Default is 0 (disabled).
You can also add a keyboard shortcut for refresh by going to Manage > Keyboard shortcuts, searching for vscode-cowsay.refresh, and assigning a shortcut to it.
No known issues at this time. If you encounter any problems, please file an issue on the GitHub repository.
- Added multi-line message wrapping to improve readability for longer texts.
- Extension now keeps zoom level after restart.
- 6 new animals added - bat, bear, butterfly, cat, dog, llama.
- Extension now keeps the animal you selected after restart.
- Added auto-refresh interval option in User Settings (press Ctrl+, then search for cowsay and look for "Auto Refresh Interval setting under Vscode-cowsay" section and enter the desired interval in minutes).
- Added more "animals" and ability to change them.
- Added developer excuses instead of cow puns.
- Improved design and code compatibility.
- Added zoom functionality.
- Improved sidebar UI.
- Initial release of VS Code Cowsay.
- Basic Cowsay sidebar with refresh functionality.
Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.
This extension is licensed under the MIT License.