TextEditor.selection is not respected in clipboard operations

[alefragnani]

• VSCode Version: ^1.1.0
• OS Version: Windows

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Update TextEditor.selection
2. Execute editor.action.clipboardCopyAction or editor.action.clipboardCutAction commands
3. Instead of copying to clipboard the new selected word, it copies the entire line (default Code behavior when nothing is selected)

The code is basically this one:

  const cursorWordRange = doc.getWordRangeAtPosition(selection.active);
  var newSe = new vscode.Selection(cursorWordRange.start.line, cursorWordRange.start.character, cursorWordRange.end.line, cursorWordRange.end.character);
  editor.selection = newSe;
  vscode.commands.executeCommand("editor.action.clipboardCopyAction");

The issue already appeared in version 0.10.11 and was fixed in March release (#4393), but returned 1.1.0.

Thanks in advance

[jrieken]

@alefragnani It's not really an API command - the behaviour isn't spec'd. For now I'd recommend to use a node_module to copy stuff to clipboard

[alefragnani]

@jrieken I understand that. I just reported the issue because in #4393 it was considered a bug, and was fixed by this commit.

I will move to https://github.com/xavi-/node-copy-paste, as you suggested in some other issues, like #4972 and #217.

Thanks

[jrieken]

@alexandrudima Can you comment?

[alexdima]

Sorry for not noticing this comment, I tried the following and it works for me:

commands.registerCommand('test', () => {
        let editor = window.activeTextEditor;
        let doc = editor.document;
        let selection = editor.selection;

        const cursorWordRange = doc.getWordRangeAtPosition(selection.active);
        var newSe = new Selection(cursorWordRange.start.line, cursorWordRange.start.character, cursorWordRange.end.line, cursorWordRange.end.character);
        editor.selection = newSe;
        commands.executeCommand("editor.action.clipboardCutAction");
    });

[alefragnani]

No problem @alexandrudima 👍

I followed @jrieken suggestion and since then, I'm using https://github.com/xavi-/node-copy-paste, instead of the clipboard commands.

Thanks