Paste Image

Paste image directly from clipboard to markdown/asciidoc(or other file)!

Support Mac/Windows/Linux! And support config destination folder.

Now you can enable pasteImage.showFilePathConfirmInputBox to modify file path before save:

Usage

1. capture screen to clipboard
2. Open the command palette: Ctrl+Shift+P (Cmd+Shift+P on Mac)
3. Type: "Paste Image" or you can use default keyboard binding: Ctrl+Alt+V (Cmd+Alt+V on Mac).
4. Image will be saved in the folder that contains current editing file
5. The relative path will be paste to current editing file

Config

• pasteImage.defaultName

  The default image file name.

  The value of this config will be pass to the 'format' function of moment library(a js time manipulation library), you can read document https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/ for advanced usage.

  And you can use variable:

  • ${currentFileName}: the current file name with ext.
  • ${currentFileNameWithoutExt}: the current file name without ext.

  Default value is Y-MM-DD-HH-mm-ss.

• pasteImage.path

  The destination to save image file.

  You can use variable:

  • ${currentFileDir}: the path of directory that contain current editing file.
  • ${projectRoot}: the path of the project opened in vscode.
  • ${currentFileName}: the current file name with ext.
  • ${currentFileNameWithoutExt}: the current file name without ext.

  Default value is ${currentFileDir}.

• pasteImage.basePath

  The base path of image url.

  You can use variable:

  • ${currentFileDir}: the path of directory that contain current editing file.
  • ${projectRoot}: the path of the project opened in vscode.
  • ${currentFileName}: the current file name with ext.
  • ${currentFileNameWithoutExt}: the current file name without ext.

  Default value is ${currentFileDir}.

• pasteImage.forceUnixStyleSeparator

  Force set the file separator style to unix style. If set false, separator style will follow the system style.

  Default is true.

• pasteImage.prefix

  The string prepend to the resolved image path before paste.

  Default is "".

• pasteImage.suffix

  The string append to the resolved image path before paste.

  Default is "".

• pasteImage.encodePath

  How to encode image path before insert to editor. Support options:

  • none: do nothing, just insert image path to text
  • urlEncode: url encode whole image path
  • urlEncodeSpace: url encode only space character(space to %20)

  Default is urlEncodeSpace.

• pasteImage.namePrefix

  The string prepend to the image file name.

  You can use variable:

  • ${currentFileDir}: the path of directory that contain current editing file.
  • ${projectRoot}: the path of the project opened in vscode.
  • ${currentFileName}: the current file name with ext.
  • ${currentFileNameWithoutExt}: the current file name without ext.

  Default is "".

• pasteImage.nameSuffix

  The string append to the image name.

  You can use variable:

  • ${currentFileDir}: the path of directory that contain current editing file.
  • ${projectRoot}: the path of the project opened in vscode.
  • ${currentFileName}: the current file name with ext.
  • ${currentFileNameWithoutExt}: the current file name without ext.

  Default is "".

• pasteImage.insertPattern

  The pattern of string that would be pasted to text.

  You can configure both the alt text and the file path. For example, ![${imageFileNameWithoutExt}](${imageFilePath}) would add the file name as the alt text instead of the default (blank).

  You can use the following variables:

  • ${imageFilePath}: the image file path, with pasteImage.prefix, pasteImage.suffix, and url encoded.
  • ${imageOriginalFilePath}: the image file path.
  • ${imageFileName}: the image file name with ext.
  • ${imageFileNameWithoutExt}: the image file name without ext.
  • ${currentFileDir}: the path of directory that contain current editing file.
  • ${projectRoot}: the path of the project opened in vscode.
  • ${currentFileName}: the current file name with ext.
  • ${currentFileNameWithoutExt}: the current file name without ext.
  • ${imageSyntaxPrefix}: in markdown file it would be ![](, in asciidoc file it would be image::, in other file it would be empty string
  • ${imageSyntaxSuffix}: in markdown file it would be ), in asciidoc file it would be [], in other file it would be empty string

  Default is ${imageSyntaxPrefix}${imageFilePath}${imageSyntaxSuffix}.

• pasteImage.showFilePathConfirmInputBox

  Enabling this boolean setting will make Paste Image ask you to confirm the file path(or file name). This is useful if you want to change the file path of the image you are currently pasting. Default is false.

• pasteImage.filePathConfirmInputBoxMode

  • fullPath: show full path in inputBox, so you can change the path or name. Default value.
  • onlyName: show only file name in inputBox, so it's easy to change name.

Config Example

I use vscode to edit my hexo blog. The folder struct like this:

blog/source/_posts  (articles)
blog/source/img     (images)

I want to save all image in blog/source/img, and insert image url to article. And hexo will generate blog/source/ as the website root, so the image url should be like /img/xxx.png. So I can config pasteImage in blog/.vscode/setting.json like this:

"pasteImage.path": "${projectRoot}/source/img",
"pasteImage.basePath": "${projectRoot}/source",
"pasteImage.forceUnixStyleSeparator": true,
"pasteImage.prefix": "/"

If you want to save image in separate directory:

"pasteImage.path": "${projectRoot}/source/img/${currentFileNameWithoutExt}",
"pasteImage.basePath": "${projectRoot}/source",
"pasteImage.forceUnixStyleSeparator": true,
"pasteImage.prefix": "/"

If you want to save image with article name as prefix:

"pasteImage.namePrefix": "${currentFileNameWithoutExt}_",
"pasteImage.path": "${projectRoot}/source/img",
"pasteImage.basePath": "${projectRoot}/source",
"pasteImage.forceUnixStyleSeparator": true,
"pasteImage.prefix": "/"

If you want to use html in markdown:

"pasteImage.insertPattern": "<img>${imageFileName}</img>"
"pasteImage.path": "${projectRoot}/source/img",
"pasteImage.basePath": "${projectRoot}/source",
"pasteImage.forceUnixStyleSeparator": true,
"pasteImage.prefix": "/"

Format

File name format

If you selected some text in editor, then extension will use it as the image file name. The selected text can be a sub path like subFolder/subFolder2/nameYouWant.

If not the image will be saved in this format: "Y-MM-DD-HH-mm-ss.png". You can config default image file name by pasteImage.defaultName.

File link format

When you editing a markdown, it will pasted as markdown image link format ![](imagePath).

When you editing a asciidoc, it will pasted as asciidoc image link format image::imagePath[].

In other file, it just paste the image's path.

Now you can use configuration pasteImage.insertPattern to config the format of file link and the alt text.

Contact

If you have some any question or advice, Welcome to issue

TODO

• [x] support win (by @kivle)
• [x] support linux
• [x] support use the selected text as the image name
• [x] support config (@ysknkd in #4)
• [x] support config relative/absolute path (@ysknkd in #4)
• [x] support asciidoc
• [x] support use variable ${projectRoot} and ${currentFileDir} in config
• [x] support config basePath
• [x] support config forceUnixStyleSeparator
• [x] support config prefix
• [x] support config suffix
• [x] support use variable ${currentFileName} and ${currentFileNameWithoutExt} in config
• [x] support check if the dest directory is a file
• [x] support select text as a sub path with multi new directory like a/b/c/d/imageName or ../a/b/c/d/imageName
• [x] support config default image name pattern
• [x] support config the text format
• [x] support file path confirm box (by @DonMartin76)

License

The extension and source are licensed under the MIT license.

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