Element-web: Shift-Delete doesn't copy to clipboard

[lnicola]

Description

Shift-Delete should traditionally cut the text, putting it into the clipboard, same as Ctrl-X / Cmd-X. Ctrl-X works fine.

Steps to reproduce

• type some text, copy it to clipboard, delete it
• type something else, select it, cut with Shift-Del
• paste

Log: not sent

Version information

• Platform: web
• Browser: Firefox Nightly
• OS: Arch Linux
• URL: self-hosted, 0.99.2-3

[jryans]

@lnicola Where are you typing? In the message composer?

[lnicola]

@jryans In this pane:

[jryans]

Thanks! My guess is that this is another variant of https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/7665 and will be fixed by https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/7697.

[lnicola]

I'm confused. That sounds like a workaround, not a fix. Can't the existing editor handle Shift-Del just like it handles Ctrl-X? It's a basic editing shortcut, not something complex like an input method for a non-Latin script.

[t3chguy]

@lnicola could you try it here: https://www.slatejs.org/#/rich-text

If it doesn't work there then it is an issue upstream in the composer we use (slatejs) and not something we can work around without implementing something like #7697

[lnicola]

Yeah, I just tried it, and it doesn't work. It's an upstream bug.

[lnicola]

Filed https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/issues/2694.

[lampholder]

related: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6531

[lnicola]

Fixed in the new composer (1.5.0?).