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It's tough because you don't want the formatting...until you. If I'm editing text that has a few bolded words I'd be immediately annoyed if the pasted text did

• Willamin 4y ago
  Great point! I'd then suggest that formatting that always conveys meaning (bold, italics, etc) should be copy/pasted. On the other hand, formatting that often doesn't convey meaning (font face, foreground color, background color, shadows, etc) should not be copied by default. A three-way option to system-wide (and per application) configure the behavior for control/command + x/c/v would be nice: * smart copy/paste (what I just described) as the default * copy/paste as plain text * copy/paste with full formatting
  • pupppet 4y ago
    Yep totally agree. The number of times I've pasted into a WYSIWYG editor and discovered a mess of nested divs that came along for the ride...
  • stevesimmons 4y ago
    > font face Except where you're copying math and all your Greek alphas change to a. Your smart copy/paste would be great if it is smart enough to infer the right options from context, and update from my subsequent adjustments.
    • aendruk 4y ago
      The smart thing to do would be to convert it to α. (Or type that in the first place?)
    • xigoi 4y ago
      Why would you use a different font for Greek letters???