Copy Path Line

Copy the current file path with line numbers from VS Code.

Copy Path Line is a quiet utility extension for engineers who often paste file references into chats, issues, PRs, or code review comments. It supports both relative and absolute paths, and it formats multi-selection ranges into a compact output such as 1-3,5-6,8-11.

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Repository: https://github.com/dmxiaoshubao/copy-path-line

Features

• Copy relative path with line numbers
• Copy absolute path with line numbers
• Support multi-cursor and multi-selection ranges
• Merge overlapping and adjacent line ranges automatically
• Work from keyboard shortcuts, Command Palette, and editor context menu
• Stay quiet on success without notifications

Commands

• Copy Path Line: Copy Relative Path with Line
• Copy Path Line: Copy Absolute Path with Line

Command IDs:

• copyPathLine.copyRelativePathWithLine
• copyPathLine.copyAbsolutePathWithLine

The command titles are localized automatically. In English VS Code they appear in English, and in Simplified Chinese VS Code they appear in Chinese.

Default Shortcut

The default shortcut is bound to the relative-path command:

• macOS: shift+cmd+c
• Windows / Linux: shift+ctrl+c

The absolute-path command is available but does not ship with a default shortcut. You can assign one in VS Code keyboard shortcuts by using:

• copyPathLine.copyAbsolutePathWithLine

Context Menu

The editor context menu uses the same localized command titles:

• Relative path with line numbers
• Absolute path with line numbers

Output Examples

src/extension.ts:8
src/extension.ts:1-3,5-6,8-11
/Users/name/project/src/extension.ts:8

Line Range Rules

• An empty selection uses the current cursor line
• A normal selection spanning multiple lines becomes start-end
• Multiple selections are sorted, de-duplicated, and merged when ranges overlap or touch
• A selection ending at column 0 of the next line is treated as the previous line only

Relative Path Rules

• Relative paths are resolved from the workspace folder that owns the current file
• In multi-root workspaces, the containing workspace folder is used
• If the file is not inside a workspace folder, the extension falls back to the absolute path

Development

npm install
npm run compile
npm run test:host

To debug the extension in VS Code, open this project and run the Run Copy Path Line launch configuration.