Pastebin

Pastebin connects VS Code to pb, a GitHub-backed personal scratchpad for notes and snippets. It keeps GitHub authentication in the GitHub CLI and uses the pb binary for storage, sync, conflict handling, and version history.

Features

• Browse all pastebin notes from a native VS Code sidebar.
• Create a note from VS Code and push it with the editor title upload icon.
• Sync notes with the configured GitHub-backed pb store.
• See the active GitHub account and storage repository in the sidebar.
• Build a local pb binary from this repository for extension development.

Requirements

• gh installed and authenticated with gh auth login.
• pb installed and initialized with pb init.
• For Push Current Note, pb must support pb save <path> --stdin. If your installed release is older, run Pastebin: Build Local pb from this repository workspace.

Getting Started

1. Install and authenticate GitHub CLI: gh auth login.
2. Initialize storage: pb init.
3. Open the Pastebin sidebar in VS Code.
4. Use New Note, write content, then click the editor title upload icon.
5. Enter a pastebin path such as notes/today.md.

Commands

• Pastebin: New Note
• Pastebin: Initialize
• Pastebin: Push Current Note
• Pastebin: Build Local pb
• Pastebin: Open Note
• Pastebin: Delete Note
• Pastebin: Sync
• Pastebin: Refresh
• Pastebin: Show Status
• Pastebin: Configure pb Path
• Pastebin: Filter

Troubleshooting

• If push says your pb CLI is too old, run Pastebin: Build Local pb or update pb.
• If the extension cannot find pb, run Pastebin: Configure pb Path.
• If GitHub access fails, run gh auth status and refresh the Pastebin sidebar.
• The extension does not store GitHub tokens; authentication stays delegated to gh.

Development

cd vscode-extension
npm install
npm test
npx @vscode/vsce package