Scratchpads

Create multiple scratchpad files for doodling while you're coding.

This is a fork of omeryagmurlu/scratchpads which implemented the functionality to remove a single scratchpad on top of the original repo buenon/scratchpads but never got published to the marketplace as an extension.

Highlights

Create multiple scratchpads
Create scratchpads of different languages and file types
Enjoy VSCode intellisense in your scratchpads
Scratchpad are not interfering your project and can be removed at any time

Features

Add a new scratchpad

Run the command Scratchpads: New scratchpad from the Command Palette
Select the desired file type

Re-open a closed scratchpad file

Run the command Scratchpads: Open scratchpad from the Command Palette
Select the file you wish to re-open

Remove a single scratchpad file

Run the command Scratchpads: Remove scratchpad from the Command Palette

Remove all scratchpad files

Run the command Scratchpads: Remove all scratchpads from the Command Palette

Note: This loops through all the open tabs and closes the scratchpad ones before deleting the files (might seem weird)*

Add a new file type to the list

Run the command Scratchpads: New scratchpad from the Command Palette
Select Add custom... from the list
Enter the file type's name
enter the file's extension

Remove file types from the list

Run the command Scratchpads: New scratchpad from the Command Palette
Select Remove... from the list
Check the file types you wish to remove and hit enter

Restore default file type list

Run the command Scratchpads: New scratchpad from the Command Palette
Select Restore defaults... from the list

Available Commands

New scratchpad (scratchpads.newScratchpad)
Remove scratchpads (scratchpads.removeScratchpads)
Open scratchpad (scratchpads.openScratchpad)

Keyboard Shortcuts

You can find instructions on adding short cuts to the commands above on VSCode website.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

scratchpads.promptForRemoval: By default set to true. If set to false the user will not be prompted for confirmation when removing scratchpad files.

Source

GitHub

License

MIT

Shivanshu-Gupta / scratchpads