Make newly pasted text selected

[xcpky]

I think it's better when you delete/yank some paragraphs and paste it, the newly pasted text is selected, for reasons below:

we often need to modify the pasted code immediately, and it's quite annoying to select it again. For example, helix , for now, can't automatically indent the pasted code correctly, it only holds the original indent. So probably we should indent manually by shortcut. Honestly, I often use helix for acm training, that's the issue I meet every day. And I think this feature along with the automatic indent for pasted code are quite useful.

[the-mikedavis]

The workaround I use for this currently is to use R or Space-R rather than P or Space-P.

I think this could work well as the default behavior though, especially in combination with #1596 so that you could jump back to the pre-paste selection if it was important. Even without #1596, you could collapse the selection to get close to where you were, or use the jumplist.

[xcpky]

Yes, I do believe make it a default behavior can save a lot effort.

[the-mikedavis]

Kakoune recently adopted this behavior (in the development branch but not yet released):

• p and P: mawww/kakoune@266d1c3
• ! and A-!: mawww/kakoune@85b78dd

See mawww/kakoune#4277