Support escape on paste (semantic paste)

[brandonJY]

Nice done for format on paste (#13945). Wondering if it is possible to add feature to escape characters on paste.
E.g. If paste string "foo" bar into javascript var str="[paste here]";
we would want the paste string to auto convert to something like \"foo\" bar

[gwicksted]

Please include TypeScript/ES6 template literal support (the backtick) where newlines are left as-is and special support for escaping ${}.

[alexdima]

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[gwicksted]

I have written an extension to address this issue. Available on the marketplace or search within vscode via ctrl+shift+x type Semantic Paste -- it's currently the top result.

To paste with the semantic escaping turned on, use ctrl+shift+v.