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Select and paste over

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Cannot overwrite selected text with copy and paste

  • code-server version: master branch
  • OS Version: Ubuntu

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Copy (CMD+C) any text to clipboard
  2. Select text any input (editor or text fields), per example CMD+A
  3. Paste (CMD+V) clipboard

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

8reactions
avelinocommented, Mar 10, 2019

Thanks, working set 3 config

"editor.copyWithSyntaxHighlighting": false,
"editor.emptySelectionClipboard": false,
"editor.selectionClipboard": false,
3reactions
jondavidschobercommented, Mar 14, 2019

Commenting in here. Why do we need to add these 3 configs? Vanilla VSCode doesn’t have copy-on-select enabled. Why does code-server? Extremely confusing and frustrating

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