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Bug 64210 - VisualEditor: VE should have a toolbar icon for cut-copy-paste
VisualEditor: VE should have a toolbar icon for cut-copy-paste
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized enhancement
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
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Reported: 2014-04-21 22:35 UTC by Rummana Yasmeen
Modified: 2014-04-21 23:54 UTC (History)
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Description Rummana Yasmeen 2014-04-21 22:35:23 UTC 
Right now, we have cut-copy-paste feature in VE but there is no icon for these Clipboard actions.
It would be nice to have them on the toolbar as it is a pretty good feature with no visual indication that it exists.
Comment 1 Roan Kattouw 2014-04-21 22:41:06 UTC 
Triggering a cut/copy/paste from JavaScript might be hard due to security restrictions :( . Google Docs, for instance, has cut/copy/paste actions in the edit menu, but if you try to use them you get a dialog that says "these actions are unavailable via the Edit menu, but you can still use Ctrl+X / Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V".

We might be able to do this using execCommand though, but I don't know how well that works and how reliable it is. CC Ed because he's done a bunch of work on contentEditable copy/paste in the past so he might know more.
Comment 2 Ed Sanders 2014-04-21 22:54:59 UTC 
Google Docs shows that message in non-Chrome browsers. In Chrome browsers it asks you to install a plugin. Basically this is impossible due to the (fairly sensible) browser security model.
Comment 3 James Forrester 2014-04-21 23:54:24 UTC 
WONTFIXing, but really this is CANTFIX, sadly.
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