From 4be8c85b6459899a2f9b48a2b8565ab0cd1a102c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Lipski <matthewlipski@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 22:06:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Made pasting from VSCode fallback to pasting plain text if it
 fails

---
 .../src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/handleVSCodePaste.ts | 8 ++------
 .../src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/pasteExtension.ts    | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/handleVSCodePaste.ts b/packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/handleVSCodePaste.ts
index b566dfdbe2..ffb298544f 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/handleVSCodePaste.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/handleVSCodePaste.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 import { EditorView } from "prosemirror-view";
 
-export async function handleVSCodePaste(
-  event: ClipboardEvent,
-  view: EditorView,
-) {
+export function handleVSCodePaste(event: ClipboardEvent, view: EditorView) {
   const { schema } = view.state;
 
   if (!event.clipboardData) {
@@ -17,8 +14,7 @@ export async function handleVSCodePaste(
   }
 
   if (!schema.nodes.codeBlock) {
-    view.pasteText(text);
-    return true;
+    return false;
   }
 
   const vscode = event.clipboardData!.getData("vscode-editor-data");
diff --git a/packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/pasteExtension.ts b/packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/pasteExtension.ts
index 415b3cb7be..9fa4ed3c55 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/pasteExtension.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/api/clipboard/fromClipboard/pasteExtension.ts
@@ -57,8 +57,13 @@ function defaultPasteHandler({
   }
 
   if (format === "vscode-editor-data") {
-    handleVSCodePaste(event, editor.prosemirrorView);
-    return true;
+    // If VSCode clipboard data cannot be parsed as a code block, try parsing
+    // `text/plain` as a fallback.
+    if (handleVSCodePaste(event, editor.prosemirrorView)) {
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    format = "text/plain";
   }
 
   if (format === "Files") {