Vscode: Find in Selection expands to whole line

[TheColorRed]

• VSCode Version: 1.37.1
• OS Version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Select text multiline (start of middle of line through end of middle of line)
2. Do a find and replace on selection only

Expected Output:

The text in only the selection gets replaced

Actual Output:

The text in the selection is replaced along with the rest of the line outside of the selection.

[vscodebot[bot]]

(Experimental duplicate detection)
Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Search and Replace keep losing the selection (#39190)
• after replace in the select can't found the key word (#68696)
• Replace dialog is not intuitive (#43711)
  

[rebornix]

Looked into this again. This is as expected and designed this way.

[myfonj]

Looked into this again. This is as expected and designed this way.

If so, shouldn't be current Find in selection renamed to Find in selected lines, or something like that? This issue clearly illustrates it is quite misleading.

Correct label describing current intended behavior should probably be Set search range to whole lines containing primary selection and discard all selections if there is at least one search match.

[halcwb]

This issue seems to be either fixed or intended behavior, but I don't understand it at all. When I do this:

1. In an code file, select a code section, hit ctrl-h,
2. Type something to be replaced,
3. Enable the selection button,
4. Perform the selection.

Still everything outside the selection gets replaced as well. This is either intended behavior or not a bug?? How then should I limit my replacement to the selection?

[kiwidoggie]

I also have this issue, selecting a portion and clicking "replace all" replaces all instances in my file.

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