Issues working with Improved paste (paste the first three lines of the clipboard data to the three selected locations)

[stdedos]

As per README.md:

Improved paste (paste the first three lines of the clipboard data to the three selected locations)

and, I guess it's the same as:

Paste as Block

I think it used to be working, but now I cannot get it to work.

The intention is to copy this:

      <param name="a">b</param>

to go from this:

      <param name="1">2</param>

      <param name="3">4</param>

to this:

      <param name="1">2</param>
      <param name="a">b</param>

      <param name="3">4</param>
      <param name="a">b</param>

However, none of the commands:

• TextPastry: Paste
• TextPastry: Paste Lines
• regex $
• "repeat_clipboard": true,
• "clipboard_strip_newline": false,

can get me to the desired result cleanly.

After all of the above, the closest I get is this:

      <param name="1">2</param>
<param name="a">b</param>

      <param name="3">4</param>
<param name="a">b</param>

I was wondering if you could help, expand documentation, and/or fix a behavior if it's problematic.

[duydao]

Hi!

thanks for using Text Pastry!

Paste as block should take every line of the clipboard and treats it as a queue. If we copy a block like this

first line
second line
third line

and paste it into this selection

<a>|</a>
<b>|</b>
<i>|</i>

we would get this:

<a>first line</a>
<b>second line</b>
<i>third line</i>

instead of this:

<a>first line
second line
third line</a>
<b>first line
second line
third line</b>
<i>first line
second line
third line</i>

may I ask you for a different example of your use-case?

[stdedos]

Perhaps I haven't been clear enough, apologies. I am not that familiar with the finer details of the plugin.

I want to use TextPastry's feature that will help me treat the copied text "as one entity", instead of splitting it as newlines.

i.e. If I copy 2 lines and have 2 carets, I expect to paste 2 lines on both carets, instead of one each.

[duydao]

Thanks for taking your time to clarify this issue.

This should already be a default feature of sublime text!

Expanding on your example, if we copy this line into the clipboard:

      <param name="a">b</param>

we can paste it normally and it will be inserted on every location with a caret, as this clip shows:

Would that the feature, that you were looking for?

[stdedos]

Thank you for your quick response. Please note that my example is not this:

      <param name="a">b</param>

but it's that:

      <param name="a">b</param>

(i.e. one extra \n)

[duydao]

Thank you for clarifying the issue!

The content shouldn't matter, as long as we paste using the default paste (ctrl+v or cmd+v), the text will be pasted into the selected location by sublime text, as shown in this clip:

Please let me know if we're on the right track on this issue!

[stdedos]

Again, you are making a different selection 😂

      <param name="a">b</param>

vs

      <param name="a">b</param>

[duydao]

Ah, your example does does not select the new line character at the end.

This is a "feature"/bug in sublime text and it only happens, when the selection count matches the pasted content split by newline. If I would've select three instances of the </param> endtag, instead of two, it would behave oddly aswell. Even when I've disable/uninstall Text Pastry, we would still have this behaviour (please feel free to confirm this behaviour).

It works in my example because I was selecting an additional newline, which made the number of carets mismatch with the pasted content. This would also be the workaround: it should work if we paste the content into more selections/carets. Maybee there is a bugfix in the latest version of Sublime Text, that would be worth a shot.

I've checked the sources of text pastry, and unfortunately we don't have an option to paste "as is" atm. option. I will check the conditions to add such a feature.

Thanks for using text pastry!