Select on Find is delayed

Type: Bug

This happend before a long time ago and then was fixed and now seems to be back. When I select the words in the search box or the replace box (from right to left), the selection does not finish and it only selects a portion of the word despite me no releasing my mouse until it is to the left of the box. I am forced to select more slowly. This is very annoying as I usually select the content so that I can type new words to search.

In another matter... that I now watch out for... if the search is already selected and I go to select it again it drags the selection into my document. This is very bad UX. Dangerous if we do not realize it happens. Nobody really needs to drag from those boxes. It should just reselect the already selected.

Thanks

VS Code version: Code 1.127.0 (4fe60c8b1cdac1c4c174f2fb180d0d758272d713, 2026-06-30T10:52:33+02:00)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
Modes:

System Info

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GPU1: VENDOR= 0x10de, DEVICE=0x2489 [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti], DRIVER_VERSION=32.0.15.9186
GPU2: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8521
Machine model name:
Machine model version:
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multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off|
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|Memory (System)|15.91GB (7.20GB free)|
|Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id 256c9743-cbab-40e1-ae47-68e562a5c281|
|Screen Reader|no|
|VM|0%|
Extensions (12)

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Live Server|ritwickdey.liveserver|ritwickdey|5.7.10
File Utils|sleistner.vscode-fileutils|sleistner|3.10.3
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No files or tests are named. First reproduce the delayed right-to-left selection and selection-drag behavior in the search and replace boxes on Windows using VS Code 1.127.0, then trace the find-widget input and selection handling. Done means selections complete at normal drag speed and repeated selection does not drag text into the document.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.