Paste image from clipboard directly

[maple3142]

Motivation

vscode support pasting images into markdown using ctrl-c and ctrl-v.

The paste action can be explicitly invoked using Paste As command when your clipboard contains raw image data

But currently I can'd do the same to typ files. A simple workaround is to switch vscode to markdown mode when opening typ files.

Description

When clipboard contains raw image data, ctrl-v (or other paste hotkeys) should create image.png in workspace root, and insert #image("image.png"). (similar to markdown.link.image)

Example: https://files.catbox.moe/p5au03.mp4

Examples/Questions

A real examples using this feature would be right-click an image in browser and ctrl-v into vscode typ file.

However, to make this feature actually useful, typst also need to support renaming files referenced by typ using "rename symbol" action (e.g. on Windows it is F2 key). This is also shown in the video above.

I think it might be a bit complicated to implement because image file type detection is also needed.

I believe this feature in vscode markdown is added by https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_79#_copy-external-media-files-into-workspace-on-drop-or-paste-for-markdown , and it have another example showing that it is also possible to drag and drop image into markdown directly, but I think this need to be another feature request so I am not requesting this in this issue.

[Myriad-Dreamin]

This an internal feature of the vscode so we cannot do it in typst as well. The related customization handler currently only available in vscode insider.

[SylvanFranklin]

This seems like a useful feature for the other editor integrations, but like @Myriad-Dreamin said it would come down to internal editor work. I will try to get this behavior working in vim but it might not be initially core to tinymist.