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This has been bugging me more and more recently - the assumption that if I've copied a few words from one app then pasted it into another it means I want to pre
by wizofaus 4y ago
This has been bugging me more and more recently - the assumption that if I've copied a few words from one app then pasted it into another it means I want to preserve all the formatting is wrong 99% of the time, yet there are now popular web-based apps (Confluence being one example from memory) that don't even support "paste as plain text". Actually what I typically want is "smart paste" which implies preserving changes in the formatting, and supporting e.g. hyperlinks etc., but ignoring whatever formatting attributes happened to be active at the beginning of the selection. But I'd rather lose support for rich text paste entirely over the situation we have now.
- soheil 4y agoAgreed. I typically copy whatever text and paste it in the address bar and copy it again to lose the formatting. It also loses any line breaks but still worth it.
- JohnFen 4y agoI keep a simple text editor open to accomplish that with. You keep line breaks that way.
- wizofaus 4y agoThat's my usual trick too but it's a terrible hack. Windows in general (I don't think MacOS is better) is crying out for more sophisticated built-in clipboard support, including supporting multiple active items (3's probably sufficient), and better conversion/formatting options (even to the point of automatic OCR etc.).
- tekchip 4y agoCtrl+shift+v works most places to paste without formatting.