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Start programming editors and you will understand. What you see in a rich text editor contains hundreds of debugging flags and formatting tweaks. When copying,
by tajen 11y ago
Start programming editors and you will understand. What you see in a rich text editor contains hundreds of debugging flags and formatting tweaks. When copying, you want to copy something clean which will paste nicely in Word or Excel. And you want to add some metadata, so you can trace is source if it's pasted back in one of your editors.
- redcap 11y agoThis is an edge case. Most of the time your average user is after the text and not the shitty formatting. Copy-Paste as WYSIWYG should be default, Copy-Special should be an expert-only option.