Markdown Paste

Smartly paste for Markdown.

Support Mac/Windows/Linux!.

Requirements

• xclip command be required (Linux)
• powershell command be required (Win32)
• pbpaste command be required (Mac)

Features

• Paste smart

  Smartly paste in Markdown by pressing 'Ctrl+Alt+V' ('Cmd+Alt+V' on Mac) or Markdown Paste command.

  • If you paste an image, the extension will create an new file for the image and insert link code to Markdown.
  • If you paste a text, it will test the text with customize regex, and replace matched content by regex.
  • If you paste a text contain HTML tag, it will try to convert the HTML content to Markdown.
  • If you paste a rich text, it will try to convert the rich text to Markdown.

• Download file

  Use Markdown Download command (Linux or Windows:Ctrl+Alt+D, Mac:Cmd+Alt+D) to download file and insert link code into Markdown.

• Paste code

  Use Markdown Paste Code command (Linux or Window:Ctrl+Alt+C, Mac:Cmd+Alt+C) to paste code with auto-detecting language.

• Ruby tag

  Also, if you want to write article for learning Asia language like Chinese or Japanese, ruby tag(for example:聪明(Cōngmíng)) may be useful. Now a ruby tag snippet are prepare for you, select some text and press 'Ctrl+Alt+T'.

  <ruby>聪明<rp>(</rp><rt>pronunciation</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>

  This extension will not get the pronunciation for you in this version. You have to replace 'pronunciation' by yourself.

• Insert latex math symbol and emoji

  You can insert latex math symbol and emoji to any text file, such as Julia source file.

  Press 'Ctrl+Alt+\' or input "Insert latex math symbol" in vscode command panel, then input latex symbol name and choose symbol you want.

  

• Embed base64 image

  While you paste image or download image, you can force the extension to insert embed base64 image to markdown by empty filename.

  

Config

• Predefined variables

  • ${workspaceRoot} or ${workspaceFolder} - the path of the folder opened in VS Code
  • ${workspaceFolderBasename} - the name of the folder opened in VS Code without any slashes (/)
  • ${fileWorkspaceFolder} - the current opened file's workspace folder
  • ${file} or ${filePath} - the current opened file
  • ${relativeFileDirname} - the current opened file's dirname relative to $fileWorkspaceFolder
  • ${fileBasename} - the current opened file's base name
  • ${fileBasenameNoExtension} - the current opened file's base name with no file extension
  • ${fileExtname} - the current opened file's extension
  • ${fileDirname} - the current opened file's directory name
  • ${datetime} - the current date & time formatted by "yyyyMMDDHHmmss", You can customize the format by format string. exp: ${datetime|yyyy-MM-DD_HH-mm-ss}
  • ${selectedText} - the current selected text. If selected text contain illegal characters \/:*?""<>|\r\n it will return "". You can also set the default text, exp: ${selectedText|default text}, If selected text contain illegal characters or selected text is empty it will return the default text.

• MarkdownPaste.path

  The folder path that image will be saved. Support absolute path and relative path and predefined variables.

  Default value is ${fileDirname}.

• MarkdownPaste.nameBase

  The string as the default image file name. Support predefined variables.

  Default value is ${datetime|yyyyMMDDHHmmss}.

• MarkdownPaste.namePrefix

  The string prepend to the default image file name. Support predefined variables.

  Default value is "".

• MarkdownPaste.nameSuffix

  The string append to the default image file name. Support predefined variables.

  Default value is "".

• MarkdownPaste.silence

  Enable/disable showing confirm box while paste image. Set this config option to true, filename confirm box will not be shown while paste image.

  Default value is false.

• MarkdownPaste.enableImgTag

  Enable/disable using HTML img tag with width and height for pasting image. If this option be enabled, you can input width and height by using <filepath>[?width,height] in filename confirm input box. for example input \abc\filename.png?200,100, then <img src='\abc\filename.png' width='200' height='100' /> will be inserted.

  Default value is true.

• MarkdownPaste.encodePath

  Encode path link to URL-encode format.

  • encodeURI Encode all characters to URL-encode format.
  • encodeSpaceOnly Encode ' '(space) to '%20' only.
  • none Encode nothing.

  Default value is encodeSpaceOnly

• MarkdownPaste.rules

  If you want to define your own regex to parse and replace content for pasting text. You can fill the following JSON, and set it to this option.

  [{
      // rule 1
      "regex": "(https?:\/\/.*)", // your javascript style regex
      "options": "ig",            // regex option
      "replace": "[]($1)"         // replace string
  },
  {
      // rule 2
      "regex": "(https?:\/\/.*)", // your javascript style regex
      "options": "ig",            // regex option
      "replace": "[]($1)"         // replace string
  },
  ...
  ]

  The extension will try to test text content by regex defined in this option, if matched it will replace content by using the TypeScript function string.replace().

  Default value is:

  [
    {
      "regex": "^(?:https?://)?(?:(?:(?:www\\.?)?youtube\\.com(?:/(?:(?:watch\\?.*?v=([^&\\s]+).*)|))?))",
      "options": "g",
      "replace": "[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/$1/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1)"
    },
    {
      "regex": "^(https?://.*)",
      "options": "ig",
      "replace": "[]($1)"
    }
  ]

  NOTE While pasting image, this option also apply to render image path link.

• MarkdownPaste.applyAllRules

  If true, it will apply all rules to the same text orderly, instead only the first applicable one.

  Default value is True.

• MarkdownPaste.enableHtmlConverter

  Enable/disable converting html to markdown.

  Default value is True.

• MarkdownPaste.enableRulesForHtml

  Enable/disable using rules after converting html to markdown.

  Default value is True.

• MarkdownPaste.lang_rules

  As MarkdownPaste.rules, you can define rules for other language (for example: asciidoc).

  [
    [
      {
        "asciidoc": [
          {
            "regex": "^(?:https?://)?(?:(?:(?:www\\.?)?youtube\\.com(?:/(?:(?:watch\\?.*?v=([^&\\s]+).*)|))?))",
            "options": "g",
            "replace": "image::https://img.youtube.com/vi/$1/0.jpg[link=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1\"]"
          },
          {
            "regex": "^(https?://.*)",
            "options": "ig",
            "replace": "image::$1[linktext,300]"
          },
          {
            "regex": "(.*/media/)(.*)",
            "options": "",
            "replace": "image::$2[linktext,300]"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "markdownx": [
          {
            "regex": "^(?:https?://)?(?:(?:(?:www\\.?)?youtube\\.com(?:/(?:(?:watch\\?.*?v=([^&\\s]+).*)|))?))",
            "options": "g",
            "replace": "[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/$1/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1)"
          },
          {
            "regex": "^(https?://.*)",
            "options": "ig",
            "replace": "[]($1)"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  ]

  NOTE If any language rule been matched, it will not apply MarkdownPaste.rules anymore.

FAQ

1. Extension not working on Windows, nor on Mac.

   #6

Contributing

See the contribution guidelines for ideas and guidance on how to improve the extension. Thank you!

License

The extension and source are licensed under the MIT license.