Highlight to select and Middle-button to paste in jupyter notebook?

Question

In Jupyter Notebook, when I highlight text either from within a cell in the notebook or from outside the notebook, Middle-Button click doesn't paste anything as it is supposed to do in many other applications in linux. Is there any setting that would allow one to be able to paste with a Middle-Button click into an Ipython or Jupyter Notebook?

I'm using the notebook in firefox if that matters.

Answer 1

The fact that you're using Firefox definitely matters. See this issue on CodeMirror (CodeMirror is the text editor that Juypter uses): Issue #931

In that thread, it references this Firefox issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=846674 It seems as though the issue has only recently been fixed, so it may take a little bit to trickle into CodeMirror. You may want to comment on the issue in CodeMirror to inform them that the issue has been fixed on FF and it might prompt them to investigate.

However, Jupyter doesn't automatically use the most recent version of CodeMirror so again you may have to wait a while. If this issue is truly critical then I suggest switching to another browser.