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🐞 Command-A (Copy All) is capturing, but not highlighting

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
macos, swift
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reproducing Command-A in the CodeEditTextView editor with a multi-line file, then inspect the selection and highlighting behavior around the final line. Done means pressing Command-A visibly highlights every line while Command-C and Command-V continue to include the complete text.

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Description

bug
Description

File with 19 lines of text - when trying to capture all via the Command-A key sequence, only the first 18 lines are highlighted. However, after copying via Command-C and pasting via Command-V, all of the lines are pasted. So all the lines are being selected, but not all the lines are highlighted.

To Reproduce
  1. Open any existing file or create a new file
  2. Enter a few lines
  3. Press Command+A to attempt to highlight all text
  4. Press Command+C to copy the text
Expected Behavior

Pressing Command-A should highlight all text in the open editor window

Version Information

CodeEdit: [e.g. 0.0.x-alpha.y]
macOS: [e.g. 13.2.1]
Xcode: [e.g. 14.2]

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Swift
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