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kevincox on Aug 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chrome allows websites to write to the clipboard w...

Annoyingly the GitHub comment box doesn't. Incredibly frustrating to copy someones name from the GitHub webpage and paste it and it pastes as a markdown link which doesn't trigger a mention.

lupire on Aug 28, 2022 [–]

Aside from GitHub doing something dumb here, Paste without formatting belongs as a browser or OS feature, not per-website code.

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