How Can I Paste Text From Another Application Into Visual Studio with Emacs Emulation Extension?
emacs, visual-studio
Solution
`Ctrl-Shift-Ins` (`Edit.CycleClipboardRing`) will paste the contents of the Windows clipboard into Visual Studio.
As far as the other, more standard methods not working, this is a known bug in the Emacs Emulation extension. From the extension's Visual Studio Gallery page:
Cut/copy/paste from other applications into Visual Studio does not work with the Emacs extension installed. We're working on a fix for this issue and will post an updated version of the extension when a fix is available.
Problem
After copying text from another program, when I switch to Visual Studio with the Emacs Emulation extension and try to paste the text, none of the following methods work: - Ctrl-Y (Emacs emulation extension keybinding for 'yank' [paste]) - Clicking paste on the toolbar - Edit > Paste - Right click > paste How can I paste text from an outside application into a copy of Visual Studio that is running the Emacs Emulation extension?