Drop into editor API support

[celynw]

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Is your requested feature related to a problem? Please describe. [Required]

No

To Reproduce [Required]

1. Drag and drop an image from the explorer pane into an editor pane.
2. Hold shift (as suggested) to insert that file into the TeX.
3. It will drop the relative path of that image file into the body.

Describe the solution you'd like [Required]

It would be pretty cool if it also inserted the rest of the text in order to include that image, for example:

\begin{figure}[h]\centering
	\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{plot1.png}%
	\caption{\label{fig}Caption}
\end{figure}

This API was mentioned on the release notes for VSCode version 1.70.0, so I think it's quite new. Here's an example for a markdown context.

There's also a sample of how to implement it here.

However, I'm aware there are many, many ways to do this and everybody has their preferences. I imagine this could be user-configurable, but that might also be a difficult task to solve.
So if this is out-of-scope it's no problem. I just thought I should bring up the possibility.
As it stands, dragging in a file to paste in the path is already useful, and doesn't irritate anybody,

I also imagine this could be helpful for other file types, but I'm not sure what they are at the moment 😅

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• OS: Windows 11 (likely all versions)
• VS Code version: 1.70.0 (likely not before this version!)
• Extension version: 8.28.0
• TeX distribution version: TeX Live 2019/2022

Additional questions

Are you using VSCodium?

No

Are you using the Snap or Flatpack versions of VS Code?

No

Are you using LaTeX Workshop with VS Code Remote?

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If the answer is Yes, please write which one you are using. Write the versions of the remote extension.

• Remote SSH
• Remote Extension Version: 0.84.0

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[James-Yu]

LaTeX Utensils previously has this feature, but the extension was no longer maintained. The feature can be more complex than it looks like, and unlikely maintained by the core dev of LW. I'm closing this issue as not planned, and friendly discussions are welcomed.

[leoleoasd]

Hi @James-Yu, I'm the new maintainer of LaTeX-Utilities. It's actively maintained now.

This is an exciting feature, but I'm not sure if LaTeX-Utilities have this feature now (we do support pasting image though), I'll check and add it.

[Enough7]

Any new info about this feature? @James-Yu @leoleoasd
I am willing to help out

[leoleoasd]

@Enough7 It should support pasting image. dropping is currently not supported, feel free to open a PR and I'll be happy to answer your questions.