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Copy For Documentation

Copy For Documentation

Adam Bachman

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Copy a snippet of code as a markdown code block for easy pasting into a documentation.
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Copy For Documentation

A vs-code extension that copies the selected text as a GitHub Flavored Markdown text snippet.

Features

Copy for Documentation

The Copy For Documentation command copies selected source code to your clipboard as a GitHub Flavored Markdown text snippet.

For example, in a file named src/myproject/myfile.js with the following content:

import { foo } from './foo';

class SomeClass {
  constructor() {
    this.foo = foo;
  }
}

And a selection of the following text:

// ...
  constructor() {
    this.foo = foo;
  }
// ...

Copy For Documentation will copy the following text to the clipboard:

`src/myproject/myfile.js:4-6`:

```javascript
constructor() {
  this.foo = foo;
}
```

Copy For Slack

Copy For Slack is just like Copy For Documentation, but it leaves off the language tag on the opening markdown backticks, since Slack hates this.

That means the snippet from the above example will look like this:

`src/myproject/myfile.js:4-6`:

```
constructor() {
  this.foo = foo;
}
```

Copy For HTML

I don't have a use for this one, but it's there. Just like Copy For Documentation, but it wraps everything in HTML tags, suitable for use with highlight.js.

That means the snippet from the above example will look like this:

<p><code>src/myproject/myfile.js:4-6</code></p>

<pre><code class="language-javascript">
constructor() {
  this.foo = foo;
}</>
</code></pre>

Known Issues

I'm as curious as y'all.

Release Notes

0.1.0

Added Copy For Slack and Copy For HTML commands.

0.0.1

Initial release, basic functionality. Works On My Machine!™

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