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Good refresher, nice share. I wish there was a little more transparency in the clipboard. When I press WinKey+V, Windows 10 only shows me one format but often

Good refresher, nice share. I wish there was a little more transparency in the clipboard. When I press WinKey+V, Windows 10 only shows me one format but often pastes a different one (obviously) -- would be nice to have the option to allow me to look into the possible formats I can get out.

bobthepanda 4y ago
I know in Word and maybe other MS products you usually get an option of * keep source formatting * match destination formatting * text only
- texaslonghorn5 4y ago
  Exactly, but the implementation is nontrivial/nonobvious if I'm copying from the web for example.
- ghusbands 4y ago
  None of which quite do what they say, in my experience. For actual text-only pasting, I often end up pasting into a fresh notepad, then copying that and pasting into Word. Otherwise, newlines at least sometimes get altered. Similarly "match destination formatting" often gets confused by formatting changes within the pasted text. I often end up pasting even formatted text via notepad and then recreating the formatting by hand.
justsomehnguy 4y ago
> would be nice to have the option to allow me to look into the possible formats I can get out. That would only confuse an average Joe so don't have high hopes. IMMSMW there was a program what would show which formats are available for the current content, but hell if I remember how it was called and was it a regular program or just an exercise in Win32 API. Maybe it was in Raymond Chen's blog. But if you are interested you can probably write it yourself.[0] ADD: there is such a program on codeproject [1] but it requires a registration to download the binary, so I can't vouch for it. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/clipboard-formats https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/cli... [1] https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/886711/Drag-Drop-Images-and-Drop-Descriptions-for-MFC-App https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/886711/Drag-Drop-Images...
- texaslonghorn5 4y ago
  Agree on confuse, the option would have to be something hidden in settings. Anyway, I will look into links, thanks.

bobthepanda 4y ago

I know in Word and maybe other MS products you usually get an option of * keep source formatting * match destination formatting * text only

texaslonghorn5 4y ago
Exactly, but the implementation is nontrivial/nonobvious if I'm copying from the web for example.
ghusbands 4y ago
None of which quite do what they say, in my experience. For actual text-only pasting, I often end up pasting into a fresh notepad, then copying that and pasting into Word. Otherwise, newlines at least sometimes get altered. Similarly "match destination formatting" often gets confused by formatting changes within the pasted text. I often end up pasting even formatted text via notepad and then recreating the formatting by hand.

justsomehnguy 4y ago

> would be nice to have the option to allow me to look into the possible formats I can get out. That would only confuse an average Joe so don't have high hopes. IMMSMW there was a program what would show which formats are available for the current content, but hell if I remember how it was called and was it a regular program or just an exercise in Win32 API. Maybe it was in Raymond Chen's blog. But if you are interested you can probably write it yourself.[0] ADD: there is such a program on codeproject [1] but it requires a registration to download the binary, so I can't vouch for it. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/clipboard-formats https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dataxchg/cli... [1] https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/886711/Drag-Drop-Images-and-Drop-Descriptions-for-MFC-App https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/886711/Drag-Drop-Images...

texaslonghorn5 4y ago
Agree on confuse, the option would have to be something hidden in settings. Anyway, I will look into links, thanks.