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Selecting text backwards in insert mode only selects first character #1951

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rohitpaulk opened this issue Aug 4, 2017 · 4 comments · Fixed by #2062 or #3712
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Selecting text backwards in insert mode only selects first character #1951

rohitpaulk opened this issue Aug 4, 2017 · 4 comments · Fixed by #2062 or #3712
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@rohitpaulk
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rohitpaulk commented Aug 4, 2017 •
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Environment:

  • VSCode Version: 1.14.2
  • VsCodeVim Version: 0.9.0
  • OS: macOS Sierra

How to reproduce it:

  • Enter insert mode
  • Type out a few characters
  • Select those characters, by pressing shift + left arrow multiple times.
  • Copy using cmd + c
  • Paste elsewhere using cmd + v.

vimselect

What happened:

  • With the vim extension active, only the first character of the selection is copied.
  • Without the vim extension active, the entire selection is copied.

What did you expect to happen:

I'd expect the entire selection to be copied, just like when the vim extension isn't active.
@tomasiser
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This issue happens on Windows as well and it is super annoying as I copy+paste backwards multiple times a day only to find out that I actually pasted a single character instead of 20 lines. :(

@chunkeater
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Same issue on both Mac and Windows since months ago.. I need to retrain my workflow to not to backwards copy, which is pretty disruptive. Any workarounds (without uninstalling VscodeVim) will be helpful, or information on the source code portions to be fixed and I could help. thank you! :)

DanEEStar added a commit to DanEEStar/Vim that referenced this issue Oct 10, 2017
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Bugfix VSCodeVim#1951: text selection in insert mode
19c6e20 
Use the normal selection in insert mode.
This fixes VSCodeVim#1951. Selection in insert mode seems to be
specific to this plugin and is not easily possible in normal Vim.
@DanEEStar DanEEStar mentioned this issue Oct 10, 2017
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xconverge added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 11, 2017
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Merge pull request #2062 from DanEEStar/bugfix/selecting-insert-mode
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Bugfix #1951: text selection in insert mode
@DanEEStar DanEEStar mentioned this issue Oct 11, 2017
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@tomasiser
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The issue was fixed in insert mode, but not in normal mode. Should a new issue be made about it?

@jpoon jpoon reopened this Dec 13, 2017
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ghost commented Oct 8, 2018 •
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Is this still a bug or is it fixed now? If it isn't fixed, I'll love to work on this!

@ghost ghost mentioned this issue Oct 10, 2018
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@kroton kroton mentioned this issue Apr 29, 2019
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