VsCodeSnap is a fork of CodeSnap

📸 Take beautiful screenshots of your code in VS Code!

This fork changes:

Create this fork because original CodeSnap has not been updated for 16 months, neither pull request are been accepted.

• Buttons bar
• Save and copy buttons
• Line breaks: changed so it doesn't break words in half.
• Line breaks: changed so it doesn't break words in half.
• Line breaks: changed so it doesn't break words in half.

If at any moment CodeSnap want to merge VsCodeSnap changes, just let me know to make a PR.

Instalation

• Install: ext install luisllamas.codesnap

Original readme from @adpyke.codesnap

Features

• Quickly save screenshots of your code
• Copy screenshots to your clipboard
• Show line numbers
• Many other configuration options

Usage Instructions

1. Open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows and Linux, Cmd+Shift+P on OS X) and search for CodeSnap.
2. Select the code you'd like to screenshot.
3. Adjust the width of the screenshot if desired.
4. Click the shutter button to save the screenshot to your disk.

Tips:

• You can also start CodeSnap by selecting code, right clicking, and clicking CodeSnap
• If you'd like to bind CodeSnap to a hotkey, open up your keyboard shortcut settings and bind codesnap.start to a custom keybinding.
• If you'd like to copy to clipboard instead of saving, click the image and press the copy keyboard shortcut (defaults are Ctrl+C on Windows and Linux, Cmd+C on OS X), or bind codesnap.shutterAction to copy in your settings

Configuration

VSCodeSnap is highly configurable. Here's a list of settings you can change to tune the way your screenshots look:

codesnap.background: The background of the snippet's container. Can be any valid CSS background (including gradients).

codesnap.boxShadow: The CSS box-shadow for the snippet. Can be any valid CSS box shadow.

codesnap.containerPadding: The padding for the snippet's container. Can be any valid CSS padding.

codesnap.windowBorderRadius: Integer value to use rounded corners, or zero to use square corners for the window.

codesnap.showWindowControls: Boolean value to show or hide OS X style window buttons.

codesnap.showWindowTitle: Boolean value to show or hide window title folder_name - file_name.

codesnap.showLineNumbers: Boolean value to show or hide line numbers.

codesnap.realLineNumbers: Boolean value to start from the real line number of the file instead of 1.

codesnap.transparentBackground: Boolean value to use a transparent background when taking the screenshot.

codesnap.target: Either container to take the screenshot with the container, or window to only take the window.

Examples

Material Theme + Operator Mono

Nord + Cascadia Code

Monokai + Fira Code

Acknowledgements

The great CodeSnap, for it great extension.

The great Polacode, for the initial concept.

Ray.so for some design inspiration. Carbon for some design inspiration.