Windows File Paths

[cdueben]

How do I easily insert a correctly formatted file path into the source pane or the console in Positron on Windows?

With RStudio, I could just press Ctrl + C on a file in the Windows' file explorer and then Ctrl + V in RStudio. RStudio automatically quotes the path and inverts the slashes. C:\Users\User1\Desktop\data.csv turns into "C:/Users/User1/Desktop/data.csv".

I am looking for that same functionality in Positron. Currently, pasting the file into the console does not work at all and pasting into the source pane inserts the incorrectly formatted path.

When working in a project, this is not a big deal. I write a relative path by hand. However, often someone sends me a file that I quickly want to look into and that I do not want to copy into any project. I could invert slashes by hand, which is pretty annoying though.

[juliasilge]

Thanks for this feature request! 🙌 I have opened #8393 to track and prioritize this work.