Cut and paste doesn't preserve state of second voice

[seisfeldt]

Issue type

UX/Interaction bug (incorrect behaviour)

Bug description

When cutting and pasting measures, the state of the deleted rests is not preserved. This is an annoyance when cutting and pasting many repeated or similar measures and one has to go back and delete the extra rests. See picture

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a measure with two voices
2. Delete the rests in the second voice (this is very common in orchestral parts for two winds on a single staff, for example)
3. The identical state of the deleted rests in the second voice is not preserved (except for the very last rest)

Screenshots/Screen recordings

MuseScore Version

OS: Windows 10 Version 2009 or later, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 4.2.0-233521124, revision: github-musescore-musescore-eb8d33c

Regression

I don't know

Operating system

Windows 10 Home 10.0.19045 Build 19045

Additional context

No response

[MarcSabatella]

This makes sense, but - for this and many other reasons (consider for example generating the separate parts), mark the unneeded rests invisible rather than delete them. Or, for simple cases like the one shown, simply turn on the “merge matching rests” property for the staff.

[seisfeldt]

Thank you for the tips, Marc. The merge matching rests will be very helpful. Didn't know that.

[iainhallam]

@MarcSabatella Most of my work is choral music, so I want to merge matching rests all the time; are there many occasions when matching rests shouldn't be merged?

[MarcSabatella]

@iainhallam that's a good question; I'd recommend starting a thread on the official Support forum on musescore.org to discuss it!

[avvvvve]

I believe this is a duplicate of #17975