Experimental support for pasting rich content into markdown input box#317604
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Pull request overview
This PR adds experimental handling for pasting text/html into the chat markdown input by converting common HTML structures into Markdown, backed by a new lightweight converter utility and accompanying unit tests.
Changes:
- Register a new chat paste provider that detects
text/htmlclipboard data and converts it to Markdown on automatic paste. - Introduce
convertHtmlToMarkdowninvs/base/commonas a lightweight HTML→Markdown converter. - Add a focused unit test suite covering common conversion cases (headings, links, emphasis, code, lists, etc.).
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/input/editor/chatPasteProviders.ts | Adds a PasteHtmlProvider that converts HTML clipboard content to Markdown for chat input pastes. |
| src/vs/base/common/htmlToMarkdown.ts | Introduces a regex-based HTML→Markdown conversion utility used by the paste provider. |
| src/vs/base/test/common/htmlToMarkdown.test.ts | Adds unit tests validating the converter’s behavior across common HTML constructs. |
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rzhao271
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May 20, 2026
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