Smart paste for Linux: when clipboard contains HTML with embedded images (data URIs) or a raw image, extract the images as files next to the document and insert markdown with text and image links.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
Override Ctrl+V so that, when the clipboard contains rich HTML with embedded images (data URIs), the images are saved as files next to the current document and the editor receives plain text + markdown image links.
Use case: pair with the patched Teams-for-Linux that injects images as data:image/...;base64,... into the clipboard's text/html. When you paste a Teams message into a markdown file in VSCode, you get text and images inline.
Behavior
Linux only (relies on xclip).
Triggered on Ctrl+V inside any editor text input.
Reads the clipboard's text/html target.
If it contains at least one <img src="data:image/...;base64,...">, extract each image as a binary file under <docDir>/attachments/<docBase>/<docBase>-<timestamp>-<n>.<ext>, then insert plain text plus markdown image links at the cursor (using the standard  syntax).
Otherwise: defers to the default paste action (transparent passthrough).
Skips untitled buffers (asks you to save the document first so images have a sensible parent dir).
Configuration
Setting
Default
Description
richPaste.attachmentsSubdir
attachments
Subdirectory (relative to the current document) where images are saved.
richPaste.useDocumentSubfolder
true
If true, images go into <attachmentsSubdir>/<docBase>/. If false, directly into <attachmentsSubdir>/.
Install (from source)
cd ~/vscode-rich-paste
npm install
npm run compile
npm run package # produces vscode-rich-paste-<version>.vsix
code --install-extension vscode-rich-paste-*.vsix
Reload VSCode. The extension activates on startup and binds Ctrl+V in editors.
Linux only (shell-out to xclip). Could be extended to Windows (Get-Clipboard -Format Html via PowerShell) and macOS (pbpaste + AppleScript) if needed.
The HTML→text conversion is intentionally minimal (strip tags, decode common entities, normalize whitespace). It is not a full markdown converter — formatting is lost.
Requires the source app (e.g. Teams-for-Linux) to put data URIs into the clipboard's text/html. Plain blob URLs or external HTTP URLs are not resolvable from outside the source app, and will pass through to the default paste.
