Disable Ctrl+Click

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Hey @marijn, is there an easy bit of configuration to disable the Ctrl+Click behaviour of selecting the clicked node. Finding it too easy to accidentally delete content when clicking and pasting with Ctrl+V :slight_smile: If not I’m guessing this could be done somehow with handleClickOn? Any pointers would be appreciated.

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I’m having this issue too, @mmason did you ever find a solution to this?

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Not currently. In general, my position is still that you really want to give your users a way to select nodes, but I agree that having this baked in as unoverridable default behavior isn’t great.

You can, sort of, disable the behavior with a handleClick prop like this:

  handleClick(_view, _pos, event) {
    return /Mac/.test(navigator.platform) ? event.metaKey : event.ctrlKey
  }

I.e. handleClick is run before the ctrl-click behavior, and if you return true from it it’ll suppress that. Does that help, or would you need a way to configure or disable the feature directly?

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@marijn is this disable-able yet? If a user selects a whole node and hits backspace it can put our editor into states we never planned for. I always assumed this behavior would be disable-able.

It seems like the workaround you provided would work - but you say it only sort of works. Can you elaborate on what you mean? What issues might this approach cause?

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It’ll prevent the browser’s default behavior for that click, which may or may not be what you want.

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