diff --git a/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx b/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
index 6eb295e0565..7805b4f902a 100644
--- a/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
+++ b/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
@@ -616,13 +616,6 @@ export function handleMouseEvent(app: App, m: ParsedMouse): void {
     if (baseButton !== 0) {
       // Non-left press breaks the multi-click chain.
       app.clickCount = 0
-
-      // Forward middle/right button presses to the DOM so components can
-      // react (e.g. right-click-to-paste on input fields). Middle/right
-      // don't participate in selection, multi-click, or hyperlink UX, so
-      // we just dispatch and exit without setting mouseCaptureTarget —
-      // the matching release (if any) falls through the release path and
-      // is ignored there because baseButton !== 0 && !sel.isDragging.
       app.props.onMouseDownAt(col, row, baseButton)
 
       return