Monaco editor, missing "Paste" command

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If you want to Cut/Paste or Copy/Paste in the Monaco editor, you will find that the "Paste" option is missing in the "Right-Mouse-Click" menu.

If you use "Google" you will find it has been implemented about a year ago, but you will find a lot of discussions as well.

The keyboard shortcut "Ctrl + v" works fine and has to be used.

Any way to add it?

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What OS and browser are you using?

Windows 10 , chrome...
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I'm having this problem as well. Accessing it through Firefox 90.0.2 (64-bit) on a Windows 10 PC, but running node-red on various devices.

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On windows 8, firefox it doesn't work either.

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So this looks like a firefox issue.

There is a plugin

But I cant vouch for it (dont use ff)

EDIT...

@gerry @FireWizard52 @HaroldPetersInskipp
Does the context menu cut/copy/paste operations work in the monaco playground?

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It's exactly the same in monaco playground.

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I tried Win 10 using Firefox 90.0.2 , Edge 92.0.902.62 and Chrome 92.0.4515.131 none have paste.

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Did you copy something first?

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Yes in all three cases

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Most odd. Does that include the playground?

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Playground works in Chrome and Edge but not Firefox

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In node-red, where the context menu paste command doesn't work for Chrome and edge, are you connected to localhost or a remote instance of node-red? Is it http or Https?

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Remote Host, but on local server so have not used https.

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Hi,

I tested on several browsers and operating systems.
Find the results below:

  1. Linux OS (PCLinuxOS, kernel 5.13.7) , Firefox 90.0.2 (64-bit) ==> NO Paste command.
  2. Linux OS (PCLinuxOS, kernel 5.13.7) , Waterfox 2021.07==> NO "Right Click Mouse" Menu
  3. Linux OS (PCLinuxOS, kernel 5.13.7) , Chrome 92.0.4515.131 (Official Build) (64-bit) ==> NO Paste command.
  4. Windows 10, Edge ==> NO Paste command.
  5. Windows 10, Firefox 90.0.2 (64-bit) ==> NO Paste command.

Does the context menu cut/copy/paste operations work in the [monaco playground]

  1. Linux OS (PCLinuxOS, kernel 5.13.7) , Firefox 90.0.2 (64-bit) ==> NO Paste command.
  2. Linux OS (PCLinuxOS, kernel 5.13.7) , Chrome 92.0.4515.131 (Official Build) (64-bit) ==> YES

I found the issue is already over 4 years old:

See: Edit actions are available only in IE · Issue #391 · microsoft/monaco-editor · GitHub

In all browsers, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V do what they should do without any prompts.

IE11

  • the context menu will contain Cut, Copy and Paste
  • when running from file:// or from http://localhost , clicking in the context menu works without any prompts.
  • when running from a different origin, clicking in the context menu will prompt and ask the user if they want to grant clipboard access

Edge, Chrome and Firefox

  • the context menu will contain Cut and Copy, and clicking in the context menu works without any prompts.
  • there is no way to trigger paste from a click handler in these browsers.

I didn´t find a solution so far and as it is Microsoft, I do not have much confidence that it will ever work on a non-microsoft system,

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