Register * doesn't contain contents of PRIMARY selection
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Description
Steps
Select some text
Type "*p
Expected result
Pastes the selected text (i.e. it should act similar to middle click pasting the selected text)
Actual result
Pastes the contents of the clipboard (i.e. acts similar to ctrl+v)
Version: v1.25.2
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Embedder: vscode.dev
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in vscode.dev on Linux using the reported version and the "*p command after selecting text. Trace the command's register and paste handling, then verify that it pastes the PRIMARY selection rather than the clipboard contents.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100