For an emacs user inserting "a column" of colon-space in front of some pasted text is pretty easy to do. But then even emacs users are often forced to type text

For an emacs user inserting "a column" of colon-space in front of some pasted text is pretty easy to do. But then even emacs users are often forced to type text outside of emacs. Using backquotes (as required in bitbucket) is uncomfortable with my non-English keyboard. I have to type 6 backquotes instead of 3 because backquote is a deadkey