Cannot set ⇧⌘V to match GitHub-style pasting for URLs into Markdown

[lgarron]

Type: Bug

1. Try to include something like the following in keybindings.json:

{
  // …
  {
    "key": "shift+cmd+v",
    "command": "-markdown.showPreview",
    "when": "!notebookEditorFocused && editorLangId == 'markdown'"
  },
  {
    "key": "shift+cmd+v",
    "command": "editor.action.pasteAs",
    "args": {
  	    "kind": "text.plain"
    },
    "when": "inputFocus"
  }
}

2. Copy a URL to the clipboard and paste it over text in a Markdown document using ⇧⌘V.

Expected: I can match exactly what happens when pasting into GitHub issues:

1. Pasting using ⌘V pastes using "smart with selection".
2. Pasting using ⇧⌘V always pastes the URL directly, overriding any selected text if it exists.

Observed: Smart links are still pasted using "smart with selection".

It seems that the heuristics from #188871 (comment) are overriding the behaviour of "paste as plain text" when the plain text resembles a URL.

The settings note that it's possible to change the paste after the fact. I do not want that. I would like to paste the URL directly as intended without fixing it up afterwards. I am very happy with how GItHub implements it, and I would like to match that in order to decrease cognitive load from context switching.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I have not been able to make this work using information at #188871 (comment) or anything I've tried with editor.action.pasteAs or editor.action.clipboardPasteAction.

This occurs with extensions disabled.

VS Code version: Code 1.100.2 (848b80a, 2025-05-14T21:47:40.416Z)
OS version: Darwin arm64 24.5.0
Modes:

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[lgarron]

It would also be helpful if editor.action.pasteAs or editor.action.clipboardPasteAction had any sort of documentation.

Looking up information about editor.action.pasteAs results mainly in finding #183681 , which suggest that the appropriate field to set in "args" is "id". But this seems to be incorrect. The builtin JSON schema checker tells me that "kind" is apparently the correct field now, but I'm not really confident in this.

[lgarron]

@mjbvz, apologies if a direct ping is not appropriate, but I'd appreciate help understanding if this is an actual bug or if I need to learn more about VS Code internals to fix the behaviour in settings!