Lorem Whatever is a random filler text generator, that has build in the following styles:

• Lorem ipsum (the traditional classic filler text)
• Lorem Gibson (immitates William Gibson texts)
• Lorem Buzzword (immitates text filled with tech and marketing buzzwords)
• Lorem Constituation (immitates american constitution text)
• Lorem Genesis (immitates Gensis passages)
• Lorem Basel 3 (immitates german financial regulation text)
• Lorem Faust (immitates german writings of Goethes Faust)

Furthermore, you can provide your own farvorite text as arrays of single sentences to add up to 5 more custom base-text. There is an example included which contains the first two chapters of Alice in Wonderland.

Your favorit Lorem can also be triggered by Ctrl+L.

When chosing 'Lorem Ipsum' you can even configure the behaviour of that generator.

Extension Settings

You can customize in Settings:

• minimum Number of words, a lorem text should consist of.
• Your favorit Lorem (for beeing accessible via Ctrl+L)
• Edit the 1-5 Custom arrays for your own base-text extracts to generate Lorems from.
• For the Lorem Ipsum generator, choose between these behaviours
  • Always add the pure classic lorem ipsum filler text
  • Use fully randomized lorem-ipsum style text
  • The combination of the above, start always classic and add random text.

Contribute

Please feel free to suggest additional text that could be added as custom examples. Especially the Buzzword base-text could use some more creative real-life examples.

Preconditions

You need to have Visual Studio Code 1.25 or higher for this extension to work.

Credits

• Lorem Whatever uses the 'markov-strings' module by Simon Cambier to generate random nonesense-filler-text based on some text examples.
• And of course Andrei Andrejewitsch Markow to have come up with the algorithm