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webUSB serial (REPL) doesn't support right click to cut/copy/paste

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend, web-dev

Research direction

Start at the webUSB serial REPL and reproduce the reported selection, right-click, and Ctrl-X/C/V behavior in Chromium on Linux. Done means highlighted output can be copied and text can be pasted into the REPL input using the context menu and keyboard shortcuts.

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Description

bug WebUSB

I'm trying to transfer printed data from the webUSB serial screen to another package.
I can hold left mouse button to highlight text but cannot right click onto this highlighted text to copy.
Same with just the same with right-click paste (into an input statement)
Also shortcut keys ctrl-X, ctrl-C and ctrl-V don't work

Highlight text and middle-click transfers text from one window to current input point which is a UNIX/Linux thing

uname -a yeilds
Linux samsung01 4.13.0-32-generic #35~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 25 10:13:43 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

chromium-browser --version yeilds
Using PPAPI flash.
Chromium 74.0.3729.169 Built on Ubuntu , running on LinuxMint 18.2

Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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