📋 Copy Selected Files
🚀 Copy multiple selected files into your clipboard as clean, structured Markdown — perfect for code reviews, documentation, bug reports, and AI prompts.
✨ Features
- 📁 Multi-File Selection — Select multiple files directly from the VS Code Explorer
- 📋 One-Click Copy — Aggregate contents of all selected files into one clipboard action.
- 🧠 Scalable & Efficient — Handles 20–50+ files and 10,000+ lines safely.
- 🛑 Cancelable Operation — Stop the process anytime if it’s taking too long.
- 🧱 Safe File Handling — Automatically skips binary files** and **large files based on settings.
- 🧠 AI & Markdown Ready — Outputs clean Markdown with optional code fences and language tags.
🚀 How to Use
- Open the VS Code Explorer (or Search Results view).
- Select multiple files:
- Windows / Linux:
Ctrl + Click
- macOS:
Cmd + Click
- Right-click on the selection.
- Click Copy Selected Files Content.
- Paste anywhere —
- 🤖 ChatGPT / Copilot
- 📘 Docs / Notion
- 🧑💻 Code Editors
▶ Method 2: Command Palette
- Open the Command Palette:
Ctrl + Shift + P (Windows / Linux)Cmd + Shift + P (macOS)
- Search for Copy Selected Files Content
- Press Enter
⚙️ Configuration
You can configure the extension via:
- Settings → Copy Selected Files, or
- Directly in your
settings.json:
{
"copySelectedFiles.maxFileSizeKB": 1024,
"copySelectedFiles.enableCodeFences": true,
"copySelectedFiles.includeLanguage": true
}
| Setting |
Description |
Default |
copySelectedFiles.maxFileSizeKB |
Skip files larger than this size (KB) |
1024 |
copySelectedFiles.enableCodeFences |
Wrap content in Markdown code fences |
true |
copySelectedFiles.includeLanguage |
Add language identifiers to code fences |
true |
- ⚡ Non-Blocking — Runs in background without freezing VS Code.
- 🧬 Binary Detection — Prevents clipboard corruption.
- 🔁 Independent Processing — One file failure won’t stop others.
- 📏 Size Limits — Large files skipped automatically.
🎯 Ideal Use Cases
- 🤖 AI Prompts (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot)
- 🔍 Code Reviews
- 🐞 Bug Reports
- 📘 Documentation
- 🔗 Context Sharing with teammates
🧠 Why This Extension?
Copying multiple files manually is:
❌ Time-consuming
❌ Error-prone
❌ Painful for AI prompts
✅ This extension automates everything and delivers clean Markdown instantly.
🐞 Report Issues & Request Features
We ❤️ feedback!
Found a bug?
👉 Open an Issue
Have an idea?
👉 Open a Feature Request and describe:
- The problem you’re facing
- Your proposed solution
- (Optional) Screenshots or examples
📦 Release Notes
🟢 0.0.1 – Initial Release
- Multi-file copy support
- Markdown formatting
- Binary file detection
- Cancelable operation
- User-configurable settings
🤝 Contributing
Pull requests are welcome!
If you plan a major change, open an issue first to discuss your idea.
⭐ Support
If this extension saved you time:
⭐ Star the repo
🐞 Report bugs
💡 Suggest features
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