Middle click paste does not use the primary selection, but the clipboard instead
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Description
When trying to select text (eg from a terminal) and middle clicking in keybase to paste it into a chat, it doesn't paste what is expected, but tries to paste the clipboard instead. This is both extremely annoying (and counter-intuitive) and devestating since I have to go put the selection into the clipboard instead, wiping out the previous contents.
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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the behavior in the chat composer and tracing how middle-click paste is handled; the work is done when the primary selection is pasted without replacing or reading the clipboard contents.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100