Simplenote-electron: Context menu (right click) not available in Preview mode

[dplanella]

On Linux, given a note with enabled markdown formatting, right-clicking on the note or on selected text brings up the context menu.

Upon switching to Preview mode (Ctrl+Shift+P), text can still be selected, but right-clicking either on the selection or on any area within the note, does not show the context menu.

[jleandroperez]

Transferring this issue to the Electron repository. Thank you for reporting this @dplanella !!

[codebykat]

Reproduced this in the latest app version (pre-Monaco), but not in the browser. Verified I can right-click on other parts of the app and get the menu. I feel like this is probably a bug in the preview component (notably it's adding a listener for click events and I wonder if they're not bubbling up properly on Linux). I'll leave it open for now. Let's re-test after we ship #2148 in the apps.

[dplanella]

@codebykat thanks for testing this again. I installed the latest version (1.21.1) and it seems to have been fixed:

1. Open a note in Preview mode
2. Click anywhere or alternatively select a word or section of text
3. Right-click
4. Context menu appears as expected. Copy is the only action available in the menu

That said, I would also have expected the Select All option to apear along Copy. Even if in Preview mode notes cannot be edited, it should be possible to use the Select All option as it is under non-preview mode.

Not an issue, as I can just use Ctrl+A to select everything as a workaround, I just thought I'd mention it.

[codebykat]

This is what I see in the latest (dev) on Electron build:

So I'll close this expecting it will be fixed in the next app release. Thanks @dplanella !

[dplanella]

Thanks @codebykat - just one small nitpick - I think you might be showing the edit mode in your screenshot. This bug report is about the Preview mode (where I would not expect to see the Paste option in the context menu).

[codebykat]

The screenshot actually is in preview mode :) And you're right, it shouldn't have Paste, and yet. That's the default menu so I'm not sure we can fix it, but I'll make a note to look into it.

[codebykat]

After investigation, I've opened a new issue for the Paste problem: https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron/issues/2408