Copy-pasting from Notepad does not work

[YoranBrondsema]

Hi,

We found an issue regarding copy-pasting from an external source. On the demo (https://bustlelabs.github.io/mobiledoc-kit/demo/), I can copy-paste text from the page into the editor. Copying from other pages also works. However, when I try to copy-paste from an external source such as the address bar or Notepad, the paste does not work. I tried on both Firefox and Chrome and the issue arises for both browsers.

[bantic]

@YoranBrondsema Thanks for reporting this. Can you use this codepen to figure out the exact text/html that is in the clipboard? Please add it as a comment to this issue.

Also a screenshot showing the mobiledoc document and the cursor position before you are attempting to paste.

[YoranBrondsema]

@bantic From your Codepen, if mobiledoc-kit works the same way, it might be that when you copy non-formatted text from an external source, it doesn't have the data type text/html. In that case, getData('text/html') is empty. See my codepen (I extended yours to show getData('text/plain') as well) and the following screenshots.

Copying HTML:

Copying the URL from the address bar (plain text):

Could this be the bug? It may be because of this line in paste-utils.js. If getData('text/html') is empty, it maybe should fall back to getData('text/plain'). What do you think?

[bantic]

@YoranBrondsema Thanks. I'm not sure if this is a bug, exactly, but definitely an oversight. We'll need to update the paste code to handle situations where there is only plaintext available. Thank you for pointing this out. I'll work on this after #249

[bantic]

fixed by #262. Follow-up in #263.