Is there an easy way to download a file in to the workspace?

[valdar]

I have found extensions to do so, or: didact://?commandId=vscode.didact.cliCommandSuccessful&text=download-a-file-from-url$$wget%20https://...&completion=downloaded but it is not cross platform and requires wget installed.

[apupier]

there is no commands out of the box in VS Code as far as I know.
You will need to implement it in yoru own extension, or in Didact or to reuse from an exisiting extension such as https://github.com/fuzinato/vscode-download-file/blob/e1c4019e78cbd7c233a08c2d72ddd28f0add4467/package.json#L35

[valdar]

Yep, the point of this and #135 was to reflect if, given these functionalities seem very commonly used in tutorials, it is better to implement them in didact or request the user to install an extension.

[bfitzpat]

Looking for something like this? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=BishopCodes.vscode-pfw

We may be able to leverage the "pasteFromWeb.execute" command it provides to do what you're after -- if we have a url

[bfitzpat]

So doing some digging into BishopCodes.vscode-pfw, it's not quite going to work for us, but it does inform a possible approach.

@valdar , just so I understand what you're after... With a valid file URL, you want to be able to copy it to a location in the vscode explorer?

Something like:

didact://?commandId=vscode.didact.copyFileFromURLCommand&text=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redhat-developer/vscode-didact/master/CHANGELOG.md&myfolder/CHANGELOG.md

Is that essentially what you're looking for?

[valdar]

Correct!

[bfitzpat]

Something like this:

[valdar]

awesome!

[bfitzpat]

Created #140

[bfitzpat]

Will appear in the next version of Didact!