Intellij adding escaping backslashes to cut/paste strings

Stephen Boesch wrote:

Hi, I did a ctrl-c on a string: "host":"port"

and intellij converted it to: \"host\":\"port\""

I DON'T want that behavior. How do I disable that "intelligence" that is actually corruption from my perspective?

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N.

usually this happens when you paste INSIDE an existing string