Do not paste URL as formatted when pasting inside a word

[isidorn]

Testing #186236

Imagine that I am a user that is unaware of the cool new feature that we have. I just wrote the following
[Microsoft](*), and the cursor is at the * location and I now want to paste https://microsoft.com. What I will get is
[Microsoft]([Title](https://www.microsoft.com/))

Can we be a bit smarter to handle this case? Some heuristics we could potentially apply:

• Do not format URL on paste if you are in the middle of a word
• Do not format URL if you are inside a link

[mjbvz]

@MeghanKulkarni It's likely too late to try working on this in the current iteration, but consider how you might do so in the future and how you would make sure the feature is future proofed

In this case, in the future we may be able to make this feature smarter but some users may still want the existing behavior where pasting a link always (and predictably) inserts a link

One idea would to use an enum value for markdown.editor.pasteUrlAsFormattedLink.enabled with values such as:

• always — The current default
• smart — A new value to be added in the future. This would try to intelligently infer when a link should be created
• never — Turn off the feature (same as false today)

For now we'd only ship with the always and never enum values. Then next iteration you can work on implementing smart (and potentially make it the new default too)

[isidorn]

I like that idea Matt. +1 on making smart the default once we are happy with it.

[mjbvz]

I believe this has been fixed/implemented. With smart, we now only paste as a link if you have a selection and are not already inside something that looks like a markdown link