Yank back killed text ctrl+y stopped working

[rkdmen]

• VSCode Version: 1.33.1 ( Recent )
• OS Version: Mac 10.14.4

Steps to Reproduce:

1. ctrl+k to kill text.
2. ctrl+y to paste the kill text does not work.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

Works on all other program except vscode.

[rebornix]

We didn't bind ctrl+y to paste content, please help confirm if it's contributed by an extension?

[rkdmen]

@rebornix Currently VSCode is only app on my mac that does not support ctrl+y. Something must’ve over ride that. Its should work natively without binding.

[yjkogan]

I think this may have broken in Mojave specifically. I recently went from a work computer on Sierra to a personal computer that's running Mojave and noticed this. I'm just guessing at the moment though

[rkdmen]

@octref @rebornix It would be really nice to get yank back working. It's the only app in mac that doesn't work.

[partap]

It's not the same as paste (cmd+v)...
ctrl+k, ctrl+y uses a different buffer than the clipboard.

Although, I suppose that's not a dealbreaker... As a workaround I could map ctrl+k to shift+cmd+right_arrow, cut, and then map ctrl+y to paste, just to help my poor muscle memory.

But it seems that vscode is actively overriding the system's ctrl+y behavior somehow, and it would be nice to be able to just "unmap" the key and make it work normally.

[lastobelus]

@rebornix I don't believe this is specific to VSCode, in other Electron apps the behaviour is the same — kill (^k) works, but yank (^y) does not. (e.g.: Obsidian, Slack)

[rkdmen]

@rebornix I don't believe this is specific to VSCode, in other Electron apps the behaviour is the same — kill (^k) works, but yank (^y) does not. (e.g.: Obsidian, Slack)

Spotify is Electron app, but it works (kill & yank)

[arobertn]

I'm not really sure if Electron on the Mac is using a standard Macos text widget that has these bindings implemented or not. However if you go to Code | Preferences | Keyboard Shortcuts and then search for Ctrl-k, it is in fact bound to "Delete All Right". If you remove that, Ctrl-k then does nothing in the editor.

So what is likely needed is a solution like @partap proposed, but to be delivered as part of the defaults. I am OK whether it uses the same clipboard (like Emacs does), or a separate one (like MacOS elsewhere does).

(In the meantime, I obtained the desired effect manually by installing ctf0's "macros" extension, adding to settings:

    "macros.list": {
        "emacsKill": [
            "cursorLineEndSelect",
            "execCut"
        ],
        "emacsYank": [
            "execPaste"
        ]

and then binding ctrl-k and ctrl-y appropriately.)

[notpeter]

I found an extension which does this and nothing more: wdawson/vscode-bkr.

[partap]

@notpeter Yay! 😃