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Make InsertText wait for changes

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
developer-experience

Research direction

Start with the CurrentFile.InsertText entry point and reproduce the issue using the PowerShell pipeline shown in the body. The issue names no source file or test; done means repeated inserts into one file complete in the intended order without Start-Sleep or watching FileContext.

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Description

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug

Currently if you are making a lot of changes to the same file you need to either use Start-Sleep after each call or watch FileContext for the changes to show. Otherwise it won't be inserted in the correct position.

This can be demonstrated by running:

# These characters will be inserted in a random order.
'abcdefg'.ToCharArray() | % { $psEditor.GetEditorContext().CurrentFile.InsertText($_) }
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C#
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