Phpstorm Paste Without Escaping

One really great annoying feature of PHPStorm is that by default, when copying and pasting a chunk of code, it will automatically escape everything.

There are certain times when this can be a time saver, but often it is just getting in the way.

There is a solution though:

Simply enough - instead of just hitting [ctrl]+[v] you have a right click menu option for “simple paste” and this will just paste the text as is, without any escaping

yay!