diff --git a/src/app/selection.coffee b/src/app/selection.coffee
index 125e38ddb..52c1b9f82 100644
--- a/src/app/selection.coffee
+++ b/src/app/selection.coffee
@@ -99,10 +99,12 @@ class Selection extends View
 
   insertText: (text) ->
     { text, shouldOutdent } = @autoIndentText(text)
-    newBufferRange = @editor.buffer.change(@getBufferRange(), text)
-    @cursor.setBufferPosition(newBufferRange.end, skipAtomicTokens: true) if @isReversed()
-    @autoOutdentText() if shouldOutdent
+    oldBufferRange = @getBufferRange()
+    isReversed = @isReversed()
     @clearSelection()
+    newBufferRange = @editor.buffer.change(oldBufferRange, text)
+    @cursor.setBufferPosition(newBufferRange.end, skipAtomicTokens: true) if isReversed
+    @autoOutdentText() if shouldOutdent
 
   indentSelectedRows: ->
     range = @getBufferRange()