Select All Occurrences of Next Match with `caw` leaves some words unchanged
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Description
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Environment:
- VSCode Version: Version 1.12.1 (1.12.1)
- VsCodeVim Version: 0.7.1
- OS: macOS 10.12.4
What happened:
While in Normal Mode, Select All Occurrences of Next Match (Shift + Cmd + L) followed by a caw command.
(ignore the flickering which is an artifact of the conversion to gif)
What did you expect to happen:
Expected to change all words that were selected
How to reproduce it:
Shift + Cmd + L then caw
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Research direction
Reproduce the interaction between VSCode's Select All Occurrences of Next Match command and the caw operator in Normal Mode. Trace the TypeScript handling for multi-selections and word changes, then verify that every selected word is changed rather than only some of them.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100