Middle-click to paste text doesn't work in CodeMirror + Firefox
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	• DannyH
	Aug 30 2017, 10:50 PM

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A bug report from Pamputt:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Tx4o3yhzr66cek8r
Users can't middle-click to paste text in CodeMirror.

Quiddity partially verifies:
I cannot middle-click paste in the normal wikitext editor if CodeMirror is active, with Firefox+Ubuntu (Mint).
But I can middle-click paste in VE, NWE (even with CodeMirror active), and the normal wikitext editor, with Firefox+Ubuntu.

MichaelSchoenitzer agrees:
Firefox 55 on Linux. Can confirm Pamputt's statement: With the Visual Editor , the text is not pasted at the correct position (but at the position the cursor is sitting in). With CodeMirror, it is not pasted at all.
I work a lot with Middle click – often I use it the be able to have two things in Copy-Paste at the same time.

Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593761

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Mentioned In: T188607: Syntax highlighting disables middle button copy/paste in Firefox
Mentioned Here: T188607: Syntax highlighting disables middle button copy/paste in Firefox
T95104: Fix the default browser spellcheck functionality, or integrate a spell checker to CodeMirror

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• DannyH created this task.Aug 30 2017, 10:50 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptAug 30 2017, 10:50 PM

Possibly T95104#3556969 might be relevant?

Pamputt subscribed.Aug 31 2017, 5:30 AM

• DannyH renamed this task from Middle-click to paste text doesn't work in CodeMIrror to Middle-click to paste text doesn't work in CodeMIrror on Linux.Aug 31 2017, 5:19 PM

• DannyH updated the task description. (Show Details)

Quiddity renamed this task from Middle-click to paste text doesn't work in CodeMIrror on Linux to Middle-click to paste text doesn't work in CodeMirror on Linux.Aug 31 2017, 5:41 PM

The bug in the CodeMirror library Paste by using middle click in firefox not working #931

kaldari moved this task from Needs Discussion to Bug backlog on the Community-Tech board.Sep 5 2017, 11:33 PM

Niharika triaged this task as Low priority.Nov 7 2017, 11:37 PM

• TBolliger moved this task from Bug backlog to In Sprint 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ on the Community-Tech board.Feb 23 2018, 11:08 PM

Niharika removed a project: Community-Tech.Mar 2 2018, 6:00 AM

This ticket is stalled on the upstream issue.

TheDJ moved this task from Backlog to Reported Upstream on the Upstream board.Jun 17 2018, 8:25 PM

The upstream ticket says that it is fixed for more than one year (at least since Firefox 51).
I use Firefox 60.0.2 and this issue is still present.

@Pamputt I consider https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/issues/931 to be the upstream ticket and it clearly indicates that it is not yet fixed, and that the FF fixes are imcomplete.

Thryduulf mentioned this in T188607: Syntax highlighting disables middle button copy/paste in Firefox.Apr 24 2019, 12:06 PM

Not sure whether to merge with T188607 and whether to change the task status here from Stalled to Open: Upstream ticket https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/issues/931 got closed via https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/pull/5751 but there is still an issue in Chrome browsers on Linux in https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/issues/5754 .

I'd say let's reserve this for the 5754 issue in that case and keep the other for the 5751 (which will require us to update CodeMirror)

TheDJ moved this task from Backlog to Bugs on the MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror board.Feb 26 2020, 10:28 AM

Bhsd merged a task: T188607: Syntax highlighting disables middle button copy/paste in Firefox.Jan 18 2024, 5:23 PM

Bhsd added subscribers: Thryduulf, Fomafix, Niharika.

MusikAnimal renamed this task from Middle-click to paste text doesn't work in CodeMirror on Linux to Middle-click to paste text doesn't work in CodeMirror + Firefox.Feb 25 2024, 2:39 AM

MusikAnimal added a project: Browser-Support-Firefox.

MusikAnimal updated the task description. (Show Details)

As far as I know this only effects Firefox and is an issue on their end, not with CodeMirror: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593761

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