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> The majority of the implementations out there are broken and only handle text. Copy/paste are the biggest neglected operations in computing, considering that
by TuringTest 4y ago
> The majority of the implementations out there are broken and only handle text.
Copy/paste are the biggest neglected operations in computing, considering that they are the only universal mechanism for transferring data between applications that is accessible to end users.
Mobile intents do help somehow, but they are not universal or available on desktop or web environments.
- wongarsu 4y agoIn Windows-land I'm more annoyed that lots of applications default to pasting rich-text, when in 95% of cases I only want the text and not the formatting. Otoh, copy-pasting images or entire files works great, as does drag-and-drop all over the place (dragging things from Firefox's download popup, or from E-Mail attachments).
- TuringTest 4y agoThere are several clipboard apps that let you clean format and keep just the text by pasting with a hotkey like CTRL+SHIFT+V.