VS Code Keybinding: Select Text, Paste Link

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This can save you a few seconds (and some mild annoyance) per day if you write .md files or markdown cells in Jupyter-like notebooks with VS Code or its forks; otherwise, you can safely skip reading it:

When you are editing some markdown text with VS Code & Co., you cannot select text and paste a URL to create [selected text](URL).¹ This makes adding links just annoying enough that I finally had to fix it, and the solution turned out to be rather simple: You just need to add the following rule

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VS Code Keybinding: Select Text, Paste Link