Is there a "Format Selection As ..." command?

I spend a lot of time writing Markdown with lots of JSON examples. Often my sources of JSON don’t do a good job of formatting the JSON, or I manually write the JSON but make some mistakes in formatting. Would love to be able to select everything within the Markdown code block and say "Format Selection As … " and choose JSON.

Or better yet, have the command detect the format option from the fenced code block (```json in this case).

Current work around is to copy/paste to a JSON doc. Format Document. Copy/Paste back to markdown doc.

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[ADTC]

I’m glad this issue is in the backlog, and I hope there can be some progress made on it. I wish to have this feature too.

In my current case, I work with Shopify themes which can have several different formats in the same file: CSS, JavaScript, JSON, HTML, Liquid, etc. So it will be useful to highlight parts of the file, issue a “Format Selection As” command and choose a certain language to format that selection alone.

Noting here also that this was asked before #27073 but was closed in the issue grooming exercise then.

@michaelgwelch another workaround: You can temporarily rename the markdown file extension to .md.json, format your JSON code blocks, then rename it back to .md 🙂