310348 - designMode (midas) - middle click starts autoscroll instead of pasting X selection

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Ryan King]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050815 (No IDN) Firefox/1.0+rjkrjkrjk
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050815 (No IDN) Firefox/1.0+rjkrjkrjk

When designMode is on a field such as the one in the URL above, the X11
idiomatic "Middle-click pastes" doesn't work.  Instead, you'll get the
Autoscroll compass.

Furthermore, there's no way to get at that info that I can find (Shift+Insert is
identical to Ctrl+V as far as using the clipboard instead of the Primary Selection)

Strangely enough, this site:
http://www.dannyayers.com/2003/08/wysiwyg/editor.html (which has a much smaller
codebase behind it - just around 50 lines of JS, compared to hundreds for RTE),
doesn't give the compass but doesn't paste, either.  It seems to be the
exception to the rule, though, as most other designMode widgets I could find
have the Autoscroll behavior.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

are you sure you have middlemouse.contentLoadURL set to true?  see about:config

Comment 2

[Ryan King]

Yes, middlemouse.contentLoadURL is set to the default of true.  Same for
middlemouse.paste.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this an issue in a current build?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Ryan is gone