musescore / musescore/MuseScore

paste always goes into voice 1, no matter keyboard focus

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Description

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Description with steps to reproduce
  1. Open the attached file, go to the upper piano line and create a 3rd voice with ctrl+alt+3
  2. add some rests using 3rd voice using 0
  3. Now go to the beginning, alt+arrow down to bass voice, ctrl+shift+end to fully select, ctrl+c to copy
  4. 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.

Supporting files, videos and screenshots

BWV_0442.xml

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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