How-to paste text into the Cloud9 editor?

Question

I want to copy a URL (or any text) and paste that into Cloud9. Doesn't work. In other words, if I have some text in my tablet's clipboard, I can't paste it into the Cloud9 editor.

(I can paste URLs into this editor just fine.)

From what I can tell, you can only cut-paste text that originated inside the Cloud9 editor. So far I've tried Opera and Google Chrome for Android. Going to try Firefox next...

Answer 1

I'm having similar trouble with Cloud 9's IDE too; also on a Mac. One solution I found was to highlight the code you want to copy/paste and drag it onto the code editor. The code I wanted was on this page in one of the examples. A standard Cmd+C didn't work, nor did selecting 'copy' from a right click - the drag & drop is all I have found that works.

Answer 2

I'm using Firefox 44.0.1 This worked for me.

1. Go to about:config
2. Search for dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
3. Double-click it to change the value to true

Now you can copy and paste freely from within or from outside of the cloud9 editor. No boundaries. It's amazing!