feat: copyToClipboard ref method for EnrichedMarkdownTextInput#461
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Adds a copyToClipboard command across the TS, Android, and iOS/macOS surfaces so an app-level copy button can place the input's full rich content on the system clipboard, matching the context menu copy action. Empty input is a no-op and the selection is left unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MQ7G74DcZPFPEgDJMTEcCR
| // Copies the whole rich content to the system clipboard, matching the | ||
| // result of selecting all text and pressing the context menu's copy action. | ||
| // Writing the full Editable directly preserves inline styles for rich paste | ||
| // targets without disturbing the current selection. |
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The comment says "Writing the full Editable directly preserves inline styles for rich paste targets" — but ClipData.newPlainText(null, content) writes plain text only, it doesn't preserve inline styles. The comment should accurately describe what the method does.
Note: on iOS, copy/paste preserves formatting via a private pasteboard type (kENRMMarkdownPasteboardType). Android doesn't have this round-trip yet — system copy/paste is plain text only. This is a pre-existing gap, not introduced by this PR, but worth tracking as a follow-up if rich paste on Android is desired.
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This doesn't compile — _textView is typed as ENRMPlatformTextView (UITextView/NSTextView), not ENRMInputTextView, so the compiler can't find copyEntireContents.
Rather than downcasting, I'd suggest removing copyEntireContents from ENRMInputTextView entirely and doing the pasteboard write directly here in EnrichedMarkdownTextInput.mm. This matches how requestMarkdown: (line ~902) already serializes full content in this file. Something like:
- (void)copyToClipboard
{
NSString *plainText = ENRMGetPlainText(_textView);
if (plainText.length == 0) {
return;
}
NSString *markdown = [ENRMMarkdownSerializer serializePlainText:plainText
ranges:[self allRangesIncludingTransient]];
#if TARGET_OS_OSX
NSPasteboard *pasteboard = [NSPasteboard generalPasteboard];
[pasteboard clearContents];
NSMutableArray *types = [NSMutableArray arrayWithObject:NSPasteboardTypeString];
if (markdown.length > 0) {
[types addObject:kENRMMarkdownPasteboardType];
}
[pasteboard declareTypes:types owner:nil];
[pasteboard setString:plainText forType:NSPasteboardTypeString];
if (markdown.length > 0) {
[pasteboard setString:markdown forType:kENRMMarkdownPasteboardType];
}
#else
UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
NSMutableDictionary *items = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
items[UTTypePlainText.identifier] = plainText;
if (markdown.length > 0) {
items[kENRMMarkdownPasteboardType] = markdown;
}
pasteboard.items = @[ items ];
#endif
}
What/Why?
Resolves #341. An app that renders content through
EnrichedMarkdownTextInputwanted a copy button that copies the rich content, but the only way to copy was for the user to manually select text and use the context menu. From JavaScript the app could reach the raw Markdown or plain text, which loses the formatting the user sees on screen.This adds a
copyToClipboardimperative ref method that places the input's full rich content on the system clipboard, producing the same result as selecting all text and pressing the context menu's copy action. The method is a no-op when the input is empty and leaves the current selection untouched, so it is safe to call from a toolbar button at any time.The command follows the existing
removeLink/setValuepattern through the codegen command list and theuseImperativeHandleblock. On Android it writes the wholeEditableto theClipboardManager, which keeps the inline styles available to rich paste targets without moving the caret. On iOS and macOS it reuses the exact pasteboard format already produced by the user-triggered copy action, writing both plain text and the existing private Markdown pasteboard type so a later paste back into the input restores the formatting.Testing
yarn typecheckandyarn lintpass, andclang-format --Werroris clean on the changed Objective-C++ files. I also confirmed that React Native codegen regenerates the native command dispatchers socopyToClipboardroutes to the new native methods on both platforms. Documentation indocs/INPUT.mdanddocs/API_REFERENCE.mdis updated.PR Checklist
Native compile, running the example app, and the E2E suite were not performed in this environment, so a maintainer should verify the on-device behavior.
Fixes #341