Mutilple cursor also includes wrapped lines

[arjanvanderleden]

Type: Bug

Similar but not identical issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/185112

in a text file window type a text line long enough to wrap type another line below that create mutiple cursors at the start of line by using the binding "alt" + "shift" + click

expected: two cursors each at the start of the two lines

observed: three cursors:

• two as expected at the start of the line
• one in the middle of the wrapped line, where the wrapping starts a new virtual line

Remark The side effect of this behaviour is that when typing text at the cursor the wrapping changes the cursor positions

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/assets/12948711/8bb26913-a1de-48f0-ab80-742db0076811

VS Code version: Code 1.84.2 (Universal) (1a5daa3a0231a0fbba4f14db7ec463cf99d7768e, 2023-11-09T10:52:33.687Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 22.6.0 Modes:

System Info

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[misterpyrrhuloxia]

+1 to this. I'm on a 16-inch 2019 MacBook Pro (Intel CPU) and this has always been incredibly frustrating. I used Atom editor for several years and it never had this issue.
As a result of #26393 (which is several years old) they had apparently fixed this behavior for the keyboard shortcuts back in October 2021 but they didn't do anything to apply the same logic to using the essentially the same behaviors with the mouse, i.e. Multi-cursor modifier and Column (box) selection.