Automatically select pasted text in Sublime Text 3 - macros

Question

Is there any way, plugin, macro or something to make Sublime Text 3 automatically select the text that was just pasted?
I need to copy and paste some JSON data, but the pasted text is never in line with the surrounding text. Paste and indent -feature does not work properly for this.
What does work is the reindent feature, but it requires me to select a block of text and pressing a hotkey. So after pasting I would benefit for having the just pasted block of text being automatically selected, so I can just press the reindent hotkey to properly indent what I pasted.
Furthermore, it would be even better if I could bind the whole process to a hotkey, so:
Select text
Copy
Press some self defined hotkey to run a macro(?)
This macro the pastes the text, selects the pasted text and runs the reindent hotkey (*)
*So basically I would like to make a keybinding, say, ctrl+shift+b to do the following:
ctrl+v
Somehow select pasted text
ctrl+shift+f

Answer 1

You can create a plugin to do this, and execute it with a keybinding:
from the Tools menu -> Developer -> New Plugin...
select all and replace with the following
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
class PasteAndReindentCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit):
before_selections = [sel for sel in self.view.sel()]
self.view.run_command('paste')
after_selections = [sel for sel in self.view.sel()]
new_selections = list()
delta = 0
for before, after in zip(before_selections, after_selections):
new = sublime.Region(before.begin() + delta, after.end())
delta = after.end() - before.end()
new_selections.append(new)
self.view.sel().clear()
self.view.sel().add_all(new_selections)
self.view.run_command('reindent')
save it, in the folder ST suggests (Packages/User/) as something like paste_and_reindent.py
add the following to your User keybindings { "keys": ["ctrl+shift+b"], "command": "paste_and_reindent" },
Note that Ctrl+Shift+B will replace the default binding for "Build With".
How it works:
when the keybinding is pressed, it runs the new command created in the plugin
this stores the current text selection positions
then it performs the paste operation
then it gets the new text caret positions
then it compares the old positions to the new ones, and selects the text that was pasted
then it runs the reindent command
You could get it to clear the selections again afterwards (by repositioning the text carets to the end of the selections - i.e. the default behavior after pasting) by doing another comparison of the selections before and after the reindentation.

Answer 2

On MacOS you can add:
"find_selected_text": true
to Sublime Text->Preferences->Settings (User Settings View)