why are the clibpoard buttons added by JS and not R?

[maelle]

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[maelle]

I was wondering out of curiosity, but actually this reminds me of rstudio/bookdown#1072

If the buttons were written in R then the comments could be stripped (they're span "co") and the code would be put in a data-clipboard-text element https://clipboardjs.com/

[maelle]

If downlit were the home for that code, it'd be easy to use it in both pkgdown and bs4_book, assuming stripping comments is also a good idea for pkgdown.

[maelle]

or span "r-out co" only if one only wants to remove output, not actual comments.

[maelle]

downlit output munging as in #1540

[maelle]

@apreshill I see a +1 so pinging you. Would you expect the code that end up on the clipboard to contain code comments or not? i.e. should only the output be removed.

[hadley]

Per discussion in PR, probably easier to do in JS with .replace(/\n#>[^\n]*/g, "")