Provide ability for pasting over highlighted Markdown text to turn the text into a link to the pasted URL

[brettcannon]

GitHub supports highlighting some text in an issue and then automatically converting the test to a link when pasting over it. I have come to use that feature so much that it surprises me every time in VS Code when that isn't the semantics. I also checked for a setting to turn such semantics on and I could find one either.

[lgarron]

I would also love to see this feature.

Since GitHub and certain other apps added support for this functionality, I've gotten very used to using it.¹ It's always a bit jarring when I do it in VSCode out of instinct, only to delete some text.

For some people, I think it would also be nice to support ⇧⌘V (or Ctrl-Shift-V) to paste the link directly, like in GitHub:

To paste HTML links as plain text, use cmd/ctrl + shift + v instead.

(I believe I've seen at least one app also add an option to swap ⌘V and ⇧⌘V.)

Footnotes

1. I use it while composing this very comment! ↩

[vanossj]

After seeing the paste as feature in v1.79, I was disappointed to find out it wasn't pasting links over text to create hyperlinked text. We need this feature in VSCode too!