Markdown writers struggle to manage image assets reliably
People writing Markdown for notes, documentation, and static-site posts often have to copy images, choose filenames, and maintain paths by hand. Those paths can break when files move or when an editor’s preview uses different rules from the finished site. Existing editor workflows also vary, leaving gaps around clipboard pasting, filename control, and external or embedded images.
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What do y'all do for images when writing markdown? It's such a pain to copy it to a folder, name it, and type out the path
Furthermore, I have tested these extensions and discovered that they do not function when opening VSCode in a WSL2 Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu. Pasting an image using such extensions give an error 'There is not an image in the clipboard.' even after installing xclip
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