Settings to copy paste with correct indentation in Visual Studio Code

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Visual Studio-Code Problem Overview

When I copy and paste a piece of code using Visual Studio Code, after pressing enter to create a new line, the following happens:

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It seems to keep the indentation created by the new line, adding the previous information from the copied snippet on top of it. I'd rather the code was auto-beautified on paste.

Can this behavior be changed through settings?

EDIT: I'm not referring to cross-platform copy-pasting, I'm referring to copying and pasting within the same file in Visual Studio Code.

Visual Studio-Code Solutions

Solution 1 - Visual Studio-Code

This is already integrated in vscode with "editor.formatOnPaste": true property in settings.

Solution 2 - Visual Studio-Code

This plugin may help you:

paste-and-indent extension

You just have to change the shortcut and it works. Remember that you probably want to use 'cmd' instead of 'ctrl' if you're on a mac. Like this:

{
    "key": "ctrl+v",
    "command": "pasteAndIndent.action",
    "when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly"
},
{
    "key": "ctrl+v",
    "command": "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction",
    "when": "!editorTextFocus"
},
{
    "key": "ctrl+shift+v",
    "command": "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction",
    "when": "editorTextFocus && !editorReadonly"
}

Solution 3 - Visual Studio-Code

Ctrl + V followed by Ctrl + Z seems to work out of the box.

Solution 4 - Visual Studio-Code

Give my paste-indent extension a try. Content is pasted according to the indentation of the current line and left justified to that indentation.

Solution 5 - Visual Studio-Code

A simple fix is to try Ctrl + Shift + V after copying the code. It will paste all codes correctly with indentations in it.

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