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kevinramharak merged 2 commits into from
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feat: make errors copyable #156

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feat: make errors copyable
Vinayak9769 Dec 13, 2025
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Replaced "copy" text by icon
Vinayak9769 Dec 13, 2025
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12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions apps/vscode-extension/src/extension.ts
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@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
import { has } from "@pretty-ts-errors/utils";
import { formatDiagnostic } from "@pretty-ts-errors/vscode-formatter";
import {
commands,
env,
ExtensionContext,
languages,
MarkdownString,
Expand All @@ -18,6 +20,16 @@ export function activate(context: ExtensionContext) {
const registeredLanguages = new Set<string>();
const converter = createConverter();

// register the copy command
context.subscriptions.push(
commands.registerCommand(
"prettyTsErrors.copyError",
async (errorMessage: string) => {
await env.clipboard.writeText(errorMessage);
}
)
);

registerSelectedTextHoverProvider(context);

context.subscriptions.push(
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12 changes: 11 additions & 1 deletion packages/vscode-formatter/src/components/title.ts
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Expand Up @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ export const title = (diagnostic: Diagnostic) => d/*html*/ `
<span style="color:#5f5f5f;">
(TS${diagnostic.code})
${errorCodeExplanationLink(diagnostic.code)} |
${errorMessageTranslationLink(diagnostic.message)}
${errorMessageTranslationLink(diagnostic.message)} |
${copyErrorLink(diagnostic.message)}
</span>
`
: ""
Expand All @@ -38,3 +39,12 @@ const errorMessageTranslationLink = (message: Diagnostic["message"]) => {
</span>
</a>`;
};

const copyErrorLink = (message: Diagnostic["message"]) => {
const args = encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(message));
return d/*html*/ `
<a title="Copy error to clipboard" href="command:prettyTsErrors.copyError?${args}">
<span class="codicon codicon-copy">
</span>
</a>`;
};