Provide an option to disable input/paste auto-formatting in VS Code extension

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

v26.707.41301

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

In the latest version, you added automatic Markdown formatting to the input area. This makes life much harder for some users, especially when copying and pasting text into it.

VS Code is an IDE used for coding, and code often includes variable names containing _ or __. These variable names may appear in regular text, not only inside fenced code blocks. Modifying a user’s variable names when text is pasted is a bug. Please fix it.

Honestly, automatic formatting without the ability to disable it or switch to plain-text mode is poor UX.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Paste this into the input area: Some variable name _some_variable_name_

Or try Ctrl+Shift+V

Or try to input unformatted list

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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