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Why has Ctrl-V suddenly stopped working?

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Spinningspark (talkcontribs)

Why have Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V suddenly stopped working? It was working fine earlier tonight. I've tried two different PCs with two different operating systems both logged in and logged out so I'm pretty sure its not me at fault. Browser=FF32.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

It's happening for me, too, so it's not just you.

This is now tracked as bugzilla:72164. Thanks for the report.

Spinningspark (talkcontribs)

Any chance of a heads up on how this has happened? The current VE version is dated 9 October, that is, it apparently hasn't changed since this bug materialised. There would seem to be something seriously wrong with VE version control.

It is extremely inconvenient. I use these keys all the time. Apparently, this same bug can cause random bits of the article to end up deleted so it needs fixing as a matter of urgency.

I.Sáček, senior (talkcontribs)

Hi, Ctrl+V is do not work in Visual editor in my firefox, explorer, chrome. Do not work drag and drop.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)
Spinningspark (talkcontribs)

Quick check, it's not working in either monobook or vector. Am I supposed to restart my browser or something?

Spinningspark (talkcontribs)

The version is still showing as 9 October so presumably nothing has changed (unless this is more poor version control). I would copy-paste the full version info, but not even select is working in the help window, let alone copy-paste - not very useful.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

The dates are the release dates, which take at least a week to get to the Wikipedias. Cutting and pasting is working for me in Firefox here at mw.org but not at en.wp. I'll tell James F; I believe that this was supposed to be released ahead of schedule.

Spinningspark (talkcontribs)

Ctrl-V has started working again, but with a bug. If one immediately tries to backspace over the thing pasted a second copy gets pasted. Even worse, Ctrl-X is not working, and the "cut" function has stopped working from the right-click menu (that was working before so I at least had a workaround). This is such a mess for a very basic function that I need all the time that I am on the verge of giving up on using VE. This is just too flaky to be able to work efficiently.

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