auto-insert-copyright

auto-insert-copyright is a VSCode extension that can automatically include your copyright and license (if you have one) in your source code.

Install locally

Run ./deploy_locally.fish to install the extension locally for both VSCode and VSCode Insiders.

Background

Manually including a copyright and license takes time and cognitive energy away from coding. This extension automates the process, similar to what you might find in a JetBrains IDE.

Features

When you open a supported file type, auto-insert-copyright will automatically add your copyright notice (and optional license), if they are missing.

New files will be created with the copyright notice (and optional license) automatically injected at the top of the file.

You can utilize the VS Code command Prepend Copyright, to manually add your copyright notice to the current file.

You can also change the file extensions that trigger this extension. They are in the package.json file, in the activationEvents key here. The value is an array of extensions that will activate this extension. So if you want to add a copyright message on top of a file that's not in that array, you can add it. Then rebuild it and then reinstall it in your VSCode. Similarly, if you would like to remove an extension, you can drop it from the array, and rebuild the extension, and reinstall into your VSCode.

Requirements

This extension is designed to work ri./ght out of the box. No configuration is required in order to get started.

However, there are a couple extension settings (documented below) that you can utilize to enhance the experience.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• copyrighter.author: Set the author that holds the copyright
• copyrighter.license: Select a license header to include with your copyright. If no license is selected, then only the copyright will be added to files.

If you want to provide your own defaults, you can do so by adding the following to your .vscode/settings.json folder (nested inside whatever your workspace folder is):

{
  "copyrighter.author": "Your Name",
  "copyrighter.license": "MIT"
}

Release Notes

If you have any feedback feel free to submit an issue to this repository.

1.0.0

This release marks the upgrade of the package.json to the latest dependencies required by the latest VSCode at the time (Oct 31 2024) which is 1.95.0.