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Set focus after drag-and-drop

#1

If I drag and drop a selected block of text from Sublime Text into another window (e.g. a terminal window, not the Sublime Text window) it copies that text selection and pastes it into the other window. Great!

However, it leaves input focus in the source - Sublime Text - window (where the drag was from). This is a huge PITA as my attention always moves to the destination window, given I just dropped some text into it - and I start typing there. My typing immediately replaces the selection in the source window! I can’t consistently get the hang of dropping and then manually clicking at the drop location before typing.

I cannot see any reasonable argument why input focus should remain in the window (pane) that is the source of a drag-and-drop operation. Could we at least have an option to change this?

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#2

What platform are you on?

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#3

This is on Windows 11.

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