'Extract' popup in IntelliJ
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I don't remember this being an issue in previous version, but every time I select text by clicking and dragging in the IntelliJ editor, the ‘Extract’ popup menu appears and anything I type goes into a search box in that popup rather than replacing the text that I selected. This is astonishingly annoying. I have to hit escape before typing anything. If I select the text with a double or triple click, then the popup doesn't appear.
Is it just me, or is anyone else seeing that?
Is it a bug (it is in my opinion)?
How do I turn it off?
IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3.2.2 (Ultimate Edition) - Build #IU-243.23654.189, built on January 29, 2025 running on macOS Sonoma 14.7.3
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Try disabling Settings | Editor | General | Move code fragments with drag-and-drop.
Thanks, but that makes no difference, nor would it be a useful solution because I sometimes do want to move code fragments by drag-and-drop
See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-175333/Strange-actions-in-editor#focus=Comments-27-11452907.0-0 for a similar report and the request from the UI support team with the details what you need to share so that we can investigate further. Please file a new bug at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?project=IJPL with all the details.
Serge Baranov - https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-176762/Selecting-text-by-click-and-drag-results-in-Extract-popup
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