Selecting something doesn't copy it to X11 clipboard in FF Linux

[marijnh]

This is somewhat annoying, and it might be possible that there's a hack (similar to the the context menu hack) that can be used to make it work.

[lilydjwg]

Just now I'm annoyed by this one just time :-(

[adrianheine]

Pasting from X11 clipboard doesn't work for me either in CodeMirror in FF. That's #931.

[marijnh]

(Making contentEditable the default on Desktop might help here, since we'll be using a real selection then and thus giving the browser the possibility to execut its default selection behavior. Haven't tested yet, though.)

[adrianheine]

This is a issue that's difficult if not impossible to solve with the fundamental approach currently taken by CodeMirror.

We are working on a rewrite (CodeMirror 6) that will address this issue, and we are currently raising money for this work: See the announcement for more information about the rewrite and a demo.

Note that CodeMirror 6 is by no means stable or usable in production, yet. It's highly unlikely that we pick up this issue for CodeMirror 5, though.