[gitbook] Copy to clipboard buttons for code blocks #776
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The aim of this PR is to resolve #775.
I propose the following implementation:
use clipboard.js: this is a maintained lightweight JS library for copying to clipboard. It is already used by pkgdown. There exists a gitbook
copy-codeplugin but it seems to be unmaintained. @yihui, tell me if you agree to integrate clipboard.js in bookdown or if you would prefer to use thecopy-codeplugin.a very basic styling for copy-to-clipboard buttons. @behrman, contrary to pkgdown there is no tooltip. For tooltips, we should add another library in bookdown and I feel that the extra benefit of tooltips would be very small.