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What's this?

It's an GNU Emacs extension, using it you can just use one key to save clipboard image to disk file, and at the same time insert the file link(org-mode/markdown-mode) or file path(other mode) to current point.

Support Windows and Mac, based on PasteEx (on Windows OS) and pngpaste (on Mac OS).

Here is a usage demo:

Prerequisite

• Windows: Install PasteEx
• Mac: Install Pngpaste

Installation

Put pasteex-mode.el to your load-path. The load-path is usually ~/elisp/. It's set in your ~/.emacs file like this:

(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/elisp"))
(require 'pasteex-mode)

Basic Usage

• Windows: Add PasteEx.exe executable to environment PATH, or set the variable pasteex-executable-path in your config file, like this:

(setq pasteex-executable-path "/path/to/PasteEx.exe")

• Mac：Install pngpaste with Home Brew, and add pngpaste executable to environment PATH, or set the variable pasteex-macos-executable-path in your config file, like this:

(setq pasteex-macos-executable-path "/path/to/pngpaste")

• Bind your favorite key to function pasteex-image, like this:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x p i") 'pasteex-image)

• After you make a screenshot to clipboard, or copy a PNG image file to clipboard, then just press C-x p i shortcut, and the file link or path will be inserted to your buffer immediately, the screenshot image file is saved to ./img/ directory by default. If you want to specify another directory name, you can set the value of this variable:

(setq pasteex-image-dir "img/")

Feature List

Support these functions:

• pasteex-image: Save clipboard image to disk file, and insert file path to current point.
• pasteex-delete-img-link-and-file-at-line: Delete image link at line, and delete related disk file at the same time.
• pasteex-is-png-file: Check a file is PNG file or not.