Easy Copy - Make Copying Smart and Simple!

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Easy Copy plugin can smartly copy content based on your cursor position (e.g. code text inside inline code), and also supports quickly generating links to headings or paragraphs in your notes.

✨ Features

• 🧙‍♂️ Smart Detection - Automatically identifies and copies different types of content based on cursor position
• 🔍 Multiple Format Support - Copy inline code, bold text, highlighted text, italic text, block IDs, and heading links
• 🌐 Multilingual Support - Full support for English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese
• 🎛️ Highly Customizable - Enable or disable specific copy features as needed

🤔 Why use this plugin

Inline Code — Just the Text Inside!

I often use inline code for debug commands or keywords and need to quickly copy the content inside the ` symbols. In the past, I had to carefully select the text wrapped inside... which was quite tedious! I want to directly copy the text inside the inline code So I created this plugin - just place your cursor inside the inline code, and copy with a single keystroke!

Just like this:

It also supports copying bold text, highlighted text, italic text. (If you don't need these features, you can disable them in the settings)

Heading Links — Copy a more concise link to the heading

As for heading links, that's another long-standing issue. Default heading links display as a long text string, but I wanted to show only the heading text — using it as the Display Text! So I added this feature to the plugin as well:

It would copy the heading text as the display text:

From:
[[note-name#heading-text]]

To:
[[note-name#heading-text|heading-text]]

The difference looks like this:

Block Links — Auto generating block ID

This works almost the same as heading links, so I implemented it too!

After version 1.2.0, this plugin also supports automatically generating a block ID for the current text (requires enabling the "Auto-add Block ID" option in settings): When your cursor is in a position with no content to copy, it will automatically generate a random block ID for the current paragraph and copy the link to the clipboard.

It also supports manually inputting a custom block ID!

🪄 How to Use

1. The simplest way is to use a keyboard shortcut (I use Ctrl+Alt+C, you can customize it in settings) — just place your cursor inside the specific text and press the hotkey to copy.

2. The plugin also supports right-click menu operations (which can be disabled in settings if not needed)

3. Of course, you can also trigger it by searching for "Contextual Copy" in the command palette — it works the same as the hotkey!

🔧 Settings

General Settings

• Add to Menu - Add the command to the context menu
• Show Notice - Display a notification when content is copied
• Use Heading as Display Text - Use the heading text as display text in links

Format Settings

• Link Format - The format to use when copying heading links (Markdown link or Wiki link)
  • Markdown link: (text)[link]
  • Wiki link: [[link|text]]

Copy Target Settings

• Customize Targets - When enabled, you can customize which elements can be copied
  • Enable Inline Code - Enable copying inline code, like code example
  • Enable Bold Text - Enable copying bold text, like bold example
  • Enable Highlighted Text - Enable copying highlighted text, like ==highlight example==
  • Enable Italic Text - Enable copying italic text, like italic example

🛠️ Installation

The plugin is now available in the community plugins list, you can search for "Easy Copy" to install it.

(Alternatively, you can also use the BRAT plugin to install it)

🤝 Contribution

Issues and feature requests are welcome! If you'd like to contribute to this project, feel free to submit a PR.

This plugin really improved my workflow, and I hope it can help you too! 🌟