Support pasting URLs over markdown text (#29566)

Support pasting URLs over selection text in the textarea editor. Does
not work in EasyMDE and I don't intend to support it. Image paste works
as usual in both Textarea and EasyMDE.

The new `replaceTextareaSelection` function changes textarea content via
[`insertText`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/execCommand#using_inserttext)
command, which preserves history, e.g. `CTRL-Z` works and is also
demostrated below. We should later refactor the image paste code to use
the same function because it currently destroys history.

Overriding the formatting via `Shift` key is supported as well, e.g.
`Ctrl+Shift+V` will insert the URL as-is, like on GitHub.

![urlpaste](522b1023-6797-401c-9e4a-498570adfc88)

(cherry picked from commit a3cfe6f39ba33cea305de592a006727857014c53)
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silverwind 2024-03-08 16:15:58 +01:00 committed by Earl Warren
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@ -242,3 +242,39 @@ export function isElemVisible(element) {
return Boolean(element.offsetWidth || element.offsetHeight || element.getClientRects().length);
}
// extract text and images from "paste" event
export function getPastedContent(e) {
const images = [];
for (const item of e.clipboardData?.items ?? []) {
if (item.type?.startsWith('image/')) {
images.push(item.getAsFile());
}
}
const text = e.clipboardData?.getData?.('text') ?? '';
return {text, images};
}
// replace selected text in a textarea while preserving editor history, e.g. CTRL-Z works after this
export function replaceTextareaSelection(textarea, text) {
const before = textarea.value.slice(0, textarea.selectionStart ?? undefined);
const after = textarea.value.slice(textarea.selectionEnd ?? undefined);
let success = true;
textarea.contentEditable = 'true';
try {
success = document.execCommand('insertText', false, text);
} catch {
success = false;
}
textarea.contentEditable = 'false';
if (success && !textarea.value.slice(0, textarea.selectionStart ?? undefined).endsWith(text)) {
success = false;
}
if (!success) {
textarea.value = `${before}${text}${after}`;
textarea.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('change', {bubbles: true, cancelable: true}));
}
}