Markdown Paste image ^{VS Code}

Paste an Image from clipboard into markdown for VS Code

Installation

Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install chris-towles.markdown-paste-image

Features

• Paste image from clipboard into markdown
• prompts for the file name or uses the selected text as the file name.
• Save clipboard image as PNG file and insert image markdown.

There are other plugins that had this feature, but they were not maintained, had bugs, or had tons of features I didn't want. So here is a simple extension that does one thing and one thing only and does it with tests!

Requirements

Linux

xclip command is required (Linux)

Example on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install xclip

Windows

powershell command be required (Win32)

Mac

pbpaste command be required (Mac)

Configuration

Below are the options you can set in your settings.json file.

Image Folder Path

The destination to save image file.

You can use variable ${currentFileDir} and ${projectRoot}. ${currentFileDir} will be replaced by the path of directory that contain current editing file. ${projectRoot} will be replaced by path of the project opened in vscode.

{
   // ... other settings.json
   "markdownPasteImage.imageFolderPath" : "${currentFileDir}"
}

Default Image Name

The default image file name. The value of this config will be pass to the 'format' function of Luxon library, you can read document https://moment.github.io/luxon/#/formatting?id=table-of-tokens for usage. If you have text selected, it will be used as the file name instead.

{
   // ... other settings.json
   "markdownPasteImage.defaultImageName" : "yyyyLLmm-HHmmss"
}

Image Name Prefix

The string prepended to the image file name.

{
   // ... other settings.json
   "markdownPasteImage.imageNamePrefix" : ""
}

Image Name Suffix

The string appended to the image file name.

{
   // ... other settings.json
   "markdownPasteImage.imageNameSuffix" : ""
}

Image Uri Path Prefix

The string prepended to the resolved image path. Can be used if you want to supply a custom domain to image url.

{
   // ... other settings.json
   "markdownPasteImage.imageUriPathPrefix" : ""
}

Image Uri Path Suffix

The string appended to the resolved image path. Can be used if you want to supply a custom parameters to image url.

{
   // ... other settings.json
   "markdownPasteImage.imageUriPathSuffix" : ""
}

Encode Path

The string appended to the image file name. How to encode image path before insert to editor.

Possible Values: none, urlEncode, urlEncodeSpace

{
   // ... other settings.json
   "markdownPasteImage.encodePath" : "urlEncodeSpace"
}

Insert Pattern

The pattern of string that would be pasted to text.

{
   // ... other settings.json
   "markdownPasteImage.insertPattern" : "${imageSyntaxPrefix}${imageFilePath}${imageSyntaxSuffix}"
}

Show File Path Confirm Input Box

Set to true if you want to be able to change the file path or name prior to saving the file to disk

{
   // ... other settings.json
   "markdownPasteImage.showFilePathConfirmInputBox" : true
}

File Path Confirm Input Box Mode

Set the mode of file path confirm input box

Possible Values: fullPath, onlyName

{
   // ... other settings.json
   "markdownPasteImage.filePathConfirmInputBoxMode" : "fullPath"
}

VsCode Publish

• Micrsoft Publisher UI
• VsCode API Docs

Credits

I wanted to make this plugin after issues with markdown image paste mushan.vscode-paste-image. After looking for an alternative and finding out that it looked like there were half a dozen copies and most were forks, or no longer maintained.

I decided to use Anthony Fu's repo for vscode-smart-clicks as a starting point. And then build from there to have the features that I wanted.

License

MIT License © 2022 Chris Towles