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paste always goes into voice 1, no matter keyboard focus
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Description with steps to reproduce
- Open the attached file, go to the upper piano line and create a 3rd voice with ctrl+alt+3
- add some rests using 3rd voice using 0
- Now go to the beginning, alt+arrow down to bass voice, ctrl+shift+end to fully select, ctrl+c to copy
- Again to the beginning, now alt+arrow down to the newly created voice 3 and paste
expected behavior
AS I moved to voice 3, I want pasted content to go there.
actual behavior
Even though I focused voice 3, content goes into voice 1, overriding it.
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In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
Version: 4.7.3.260608135
Regression
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Operating system
Windows 11
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