Multiline copy and repeated pasting

[aith85]

I'd like to be able to replicate what you can do in Sublime Text 4 with multiline copying and pasting.

When copying multiple lines and trying to paste them on exactly a multiple of lines (eg: copy 4 to 8 lines) I'd like the copied lines to be pasted repeatedly on all destination lines.

EG:
Copy these 4 lines

1
2
3
4

Paste them aside these 8 lines:

a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h

Obtain the following:

a1
b2
c3
d4
e1
f2
g3
h4

Unfortunately, VSCode does this:

a1
2
3
4
b1
2
3
4
c1
2
3
4
d1
2
3
4
e1
2
3
4
f1
2
3
4
g1
2
3
4
h1
2
3
4

[aiday-mar]

Hi can you please explain how exactly you are doing the copying and pasting and if you are using multi-cursors. A screen recording with screen-cast mode enabled would be helpful so I can understand what you are doing.

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[aith85]

I'm copying a single selection of multiple lines, not multi-cursor.
Anyway it was not Sublime Text but a 3rd party extension.

It would be nice anyway if VSCode could do some smart pasting when you select multiple lines with multi-cursor and you have a multi-line code in the clipboard (whether it was copied in a single selection or with multi-cursor).

I'll try to record the sccreen and find the extension name.

Than kyou

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