"Text Selection Did Change" Trigger Causes Auto-Copy in VSCode

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Hi,
I have a problem with the "Text Selection Did Change" trigger. When I select any text in Visual Studio Code (problem only in VSCode), it automatically gets copied to the clipboard. I am not pressing Cmd+C, and I did not set any copy action in BTT.

Here is what I checked:

  • There is no Cmd+C in the trigger actions.
  • I do not have any other BTT shortcuts that copy text.
  • The problem only happens when this trigger is active.
  • If I turn off this trigger, the problem goes away.

This does not happen in other apps, only in VSCode.

Is this a bug, or is BTT doing something in the background when this trigger is used?

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in some apps the only way to get selected text is to copy it to the clipboard. If that causes problems, best disable it in VSCode

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Thank you for the prompt reply.

I am still facing an issue with the "Text Selection Did Change" trigger. Even when I set a condition to only run the trigger outside of Visual Studio Code (i.e., “only if app is not VSCode”), the action still seems to run in VSCode.

  • The condition should block it in VSCode, but it still causes text to be copied automatically when I select text in VSCode.
  • It is not showing up under "Recently Used Triggers" in BetterTouchTool, yet the effect (auto-copy) still happens.
  • When I completely disable the trigger, the problem goes away.
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I experienced the same behaviour. Alas, I don't remember, how to exactly get rid of this behaviour. But AFAIK fiddling around with enabling/disabling entries from "Text Editing Apps" and "TextSelectionMenu" helped. Good luck!

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I observe the same problem with VSCodium (a fork of VSCode). Even excluding the trigger from running inside VSCodium does not make the behavior go away.

I also reviewed and tested all VSCode settings related to text selection or clipboard, but I couldn't disable the behavior.

Apart from that, I would want to use the action inside VSCode, too.

FWIW, I noticed this behavior only recently. Could it be related to an update of BTT or VSCode/VSCodium?

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I just tried with VSCode (latest) and Cursor but can't get it to auto-copy anything to the clipboard. (I used the current BTT alpha 5.519)

What is your text selection did change trigger configured to do? (I tried with the example preset from Text Selection Did Change · GitBook )

Do you use any clipboard manager apart from BTT's?

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I too see this behaviour. Anything selected in VS Code gets copied to the clipboard. Only solution I have found is to disable BTT in VSCode completely, which is 'sub-optimum'.