Support pasting images from the clipboard into quarto (and other markdown) documents

[joelostblom]

When working with markdown editors such as Obsidian or the Github web interface, it is convenient to be able to directly paste images/screenshots from the clipboard into the documents without manually having to save it to a file and then write out the text to reference the saved image in the documents.

This was previously brought up in the Quarto CLI repo in quarto-dev/quarto-cli#4385 where it was rightly pointed out that this is an IDE feature. Positron seems to be the ideal IDE for implementing this, especially as it is already possible for .md files in VS Code (some more info). Maybe Positron could enable this behavior also for .qmd files? Some conveniences such as choosing the saved image name on paste as is currently only possible via an extension to VS Code, would make this feature even more helpful.

This would not only benefit quarto text documents, but is particularly important for slides since effective presentations often make great use of images. Image handling is an area where I find that text-based presentation solutions have generally lacked compared to traditional slide software, and it is exciting to imagine how extensions such as https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/quarto-revealjs-editable together with the ability to paste images directly into quarto presentations could facilitate moving away from traditional slide software in favor of more open solutions like Quarto.

[samclark2015]

Hey @joelostblom! I did some searching, and it looks like this is something that would be implemented in the Quarto IDE extension. The Quarto team has an issue open on their main repository tracking this: #651. That issue's been updated more recently than the discussion you linked, so it's worthwhile to leave a 👍 or some more thoughts over there!

[joelostblom]

Great to hear, thanks for linking that!