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John Montgomery
John Montgomery

Reputation: 7106

VS Code adds text to closing tag when I paste it into opening tag

Using Visual Studio Code 1.14.1, whenever I paste something into an HTML tag immediately after the tag name, it also pastes the same text into the closing tag:

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This doesn't happen if I type the text manually. I've never had this problem before; is it a new "feature"? How do I turn it off?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 624

Answers (1)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 182441

It is the mirror cursor functionality. You can disable it by searching for this in your settings and uncheck it:

Mirror cursor on matching tag

It is enabled by default now but with v1.42 will be off by default. See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_42.md#html-mirror-cursor-off-by-default

v1.44 is making some major changes in how the "mirror cursor" functionality works. It is now called Synced Regions . See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_44.md#synced-regions

If you paste something into one tag it will not also be pasted into the other tag if there is a space in the text you are pasting.

Upvotes: 3

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