Ctrl-V not working
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I’m using the web app in Firefox with a Windows 11 desktop. Starting today ctrl-v isn’t working to paste text into notes. I can copy from simplenote and paste is working correctly on other pages.
I saw a suggestion to try shift-insert and/or ctrl-shift-v as a way to debug the problem. Both of those worked.
I tried it with Chrome on the same system and there was a popup asking me to enable clipboard access when I did it there. After enabling it worked.
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It started last night and is still happening. I came to the support forum to see if there was some setting that changed but apparently not.
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I’m having the same problem in Firefox, and the paste is not working no matter how I try. When I cut text it just disappears
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Control shift V does work but is not intuitive. Does anyone from WordPress/Simplenote monitor this forum so it can be fixed?
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Same problem, updated Firefox, new Macbook OS Sequoia 15.5
Just started happening today, Sat. AM July 26.
Text on the clipboard cannot be pasted into a Simplenote window.
It can be pasted into any other window.
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I also ran into this problem in Firefox 128.11.0esr.
Like the OP, I could work around it using Ctrl-Shift-V or Shift-Insert. Clipboard access was already enabled (about:config/dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = true) and toggling off/on didn’t change anything. Similarly for:dom.events.asyncClipboard.clipboardItemdom.events.asyncClipboard.readText
What did work was going to the security settings for https://app.simplenote.com/ :
- click the lock to the left of the URL in the address bar
- click on “Connection secure >”
- click on “More information”
- click on “Permissions”
- block “Override keyboard shortcuts”
I’m not sure if that will cause some other problem(s), but I’m leaving it blocked. If it does cause other problems, hopefully I’ll remember and check if switching it back to “Allow” fixes things (and Ctrl-V works again).
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Crud. I quickly found a problem with blocking “Override keyboard shortcuts”:
- Undo (Ctrl-Z) doesn’t work on on pasted text – even when pasted with
Shift-Ctrl-VorShift-Insert. It still works for typed in text – but only for one level of undo (weird!).
Since I don’t know an alternative for “Undo”, I’ll have to revert blocking “Override keyboard shortcuts” and live without Ctrl-V paste until Automattic can fix the problem (hopefully in the meantime I can remember the workaround alternatives).
- Undo (Ctrl-Z) doesn’t work on on pasted text – even when pasted with
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Same problem in firefox, seeing this error in console ‘Error: command ‘editor.action.clipboardPasteAction’ not found’ when i try to use ctrl+v. I tried in chrome and it works but only after i gave chrome permission to access clipboard, which I’ve never seen before?? Web app, firefox, windows 11
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‘Error: command ‘editor.action.clipboardPasteAction’ not found’That’s a good find. Hopefully it’s easy to fix.
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I’m not sure, but I think the fix might already be in the github repository:
It looks like it’s slated for a v2.23.3 release.
app.simplenote.com currently says it’s v2.23.2. I have no idea when Automattic might publish v2.23.3 to app.simplenote.com.
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If you’re referring to commit 6e0565d, I’m not sure that’s the fix. It looks like that change was to make paste work from the right-click context menu.
I created issue #3329 for this issue on the Github page. I’ll post in this thread if I hear anything back from there.
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If you’re referring to commit 6e0565d, I’m not sure that’s the fix. It looks like that change was to make paste work from the right-click context menu.
That is the commit I’m referring to. I freely admit I’m not sure that it fixes this problem; I’m definitely not a TypeScript developer. However, there are a couple changes in that commit to file
lib/note-content-editor.tsxthat make me suspect it could:- deleted lines 693 – 697 contained a comment
"this breaks the shortcuts on Win/Linux -- not sure why". - added lines 744 – 749 adds a bit of code to bind
Ctrl-Vto'editor.action.clipboardPasteAction'
Regardless, thanks for opening the issue – that’s definitely something that needed to be done. I should have thought of that while I was spelunking through the github repository.
- deleted lines 693 – 697 contained a comment
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Same here. Cannot paste in Firefox 141.0, Windows 10. Paste works in Chrome with giving the browser permission.
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I found the folloing allow and not allow on the top of browser.
When I allow, it’s work.
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Even copy and paste within a note doesn’t work, ie this isn’t just an issue with data pasted from another app. I literally can’t organise lists of things by re-ordering them now.
This might be the final nail in the coffin for simplenote for me – this coupled with the login issues (frequently forgetting I’m logged in even when I was logged in as recently as 1 day before and requiring increasingly difficult CAPTCHAs to get back in) I’m going to have to look for something else.
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@thomasrutter, the web app is less annoying if you accept cookies, and allow cross-site tracking. The latter is needed to remember the results of the CAPTCHA. I use the web app every day, stay logged in for exactly 14 days, and haven’t seen a CAPTCHA in many months. Also, you can use the Simplenote app locally on your devices/computers. The native apps generally work pretty well, sync with the web server almost instantaneously, and are very stable.
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