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I don't have much use for this one in particular, but poked around and found another of his apps called Pure Paste. I've been looking for something like it for
by ghusto 4y ago
I don't have much use for this one in particular, but poked around and found another of his apps called Pure Paste. I've been looking for something like it for a long time.
It clears formatting from copy, so you can paste in clear text. Shift+cmd+v doesn't work everywhere, and the countless apps and scripts I've tried are flaky, but this seems to work!
- d3vmax 4y agoIn Windows I just pin the notepad in the 2nd position of my task bar and to achieve the process you did in Mac, it can be done with Ctrl+C, Windows+2, Ctrl+V.
- fraXis 4y agoEasier ways to accomplish this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220906-00/?p=107124#:~:text=Sometimes%20you%20just%20want%20to,%2Dbased%20apps%2C%20like%20Teams https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220906-00/?p=10....
- nick0garvey 4y agoI use the Run window for this same thing
- Cerium 4y agoI used to use the URL bar to clear formatting from copy and paste. Copy, paste to URL bar, copy and then paste to destination.
- d3vmax 4y agoLine Spacing goes away in this method for multiple sentences. This method is good for 1 word / 1 line.
- brnewd 4y agoI paste in the url bar and copy again as clear text.
- bmacho 4y agoThat's unfortunately not working on firefox. There is that text input field looking thingy on my screen, and it tempts me every time, and it punches me in the face every time as it copies the original URL instead of my text (on both linux, windows). But recently I added the search bar next to the url bar for this very reason. I don't remember using it yet.
- pontilanda 4y agoThat also loses line breaks, as well as requiring significantly more steps for a single copy-paste.
- mistersquid 4y ago> paste in clear text. Shift+cmd+v doesn't work everywhere On macOS, I am unaware of Shift-Command-V as an OS-enabled shortcut. Perhaps that shortcut is part of third-party software or older versions of macOS? To paste while matching the style of the focused document (including no style at all), I use > Option-Shift-Command-V: Paste and Match Style: Apply the style of the surrounding content to the item pasted within that content. [0] [0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
- codetrotter 4y agoOption-Shift-Command-V is such an uncomfortable keyboard command. I wish I could rebind plain Command-V itself to paste without style always.
- CharlesW 4y agoYou can do this with Karabiner-Elements, but as noted this doesn't work everywhere — IIRC, it doesn't work in apps that don't have a "Paste and Match Style" menu item. Pure Paste solves this, as does Paste Plain Text. If you use Raycast (highly recommended), you can also use its Paste As Plain Text extension: https://www.raycast.com/koinzhang/paste-as-plain-text https://www.raycast.com/koinzhang/paste-as-plain-text
- quinncom 4y agoYou don’t need any extra software to do this. You can reassign `⌘-V` to `Paste and Match Style` by running this in the terminal: defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add 'Paste and Match Style' '@v'; I’ve been using this for years, and it works perfectly in most programs. If an app doesn’t have a `Paste and Match Style` option, its regular `Paste` command continues using `⌘-V`. But occasionally I want to paste an image and can’t because the `Paste and Match Style` command doesn’t work with non-text clipboard items.
- baxtr 4y agoWow. Great. I have a txt file on my desktop only for that. I paste the text there and then copy it again.
- layer8 4y agoFor Windows there’s PureText: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/ https://stevemiller.net/puretext/