Copying to clipboard in visual line and block mode does not produce same results as yanking (when pasting)
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BUG REPORT:
Environment:
- VSCode Version: 1.13.1
- VsCodeVim Version: 0.9.0
- OS: OS X El Capital 10.11.6
What happened:
Copying to clipboard with Cmd-C in should produce the same results upon pasting as would yanking to clipboard register.
Take the following text:
one two three
one two three
Bug in Visual Line mode
Press: HV<Cmd-C>H"+P
What did you expect to happen:
The text to change to:
one two three
one two three
one two three
What happened:
one two threeone two three
one two three
Executing: HV"+yH"+P produces the correct results.
Bug in block mode:
one two three
one two three
Execute: H<C-v>ej<Cmd-c>H"+P
What did you expect to happen:
The text to change to:
oneone two three
oneone two three
What happened:
one
one
one two three
one two three
Executing: H<C-v>ej"+yH"+P produces the correct results.
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Research direction
Reproduce the visual-line and block-mode sequences in the issue, comparing Cmd-C with "+y followed by "+P. Trace the clipboard and visual-selection handling used by VSCodeVim. Done means both modes paste with the same line and block structure as yanking.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100