Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

#11

Post by lfkdev » Thu, May 12, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

strg+shift+v

Re: Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

#12

Post by sph » Thu, May 12, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

xcambar wrote: post #2

Many users, and maybe most outside HN, either: * don't care about the misformatting * actually want the red font and underlining from the web page they're copying from.

They want the red font more often than they just want the text, and don't get annoyed when their email now is all in red Impact font?

These oft-mentioned mythical users that have opposite expectations from their computer than us are a bit like the Sasquatch. Some say they've seen them, but I still don't believe it. :-)

Re: Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

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Post by Kuraj » Thu, May 12, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

groffee wrote: post #5

Just paste it into notepad/gedit/plain text editor first, then recopy it from there.

OP probably know about this, they're just making a point that this should be default behavior.

Re: Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

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Post by egypturnash » Thu, May 12, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

tlb wrote: post #7

luxeo223 wrote: post #3

Ctrl-Shift-V pastes without formatting in most applications

Command-option-shift-V in Safari. A real finger-twister.

cmd-opt-shift-v works on any well-behaved OSX application, not just in Safari.

Re: Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

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Post by UI_at_80x24 » Thu, May 12, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

I agree with you 100%.

Re: Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

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Post by bombledmonk » Thu, May 12, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v. Outlook desktop is one of the few places where this hotkey does not work.

Before I knew there was a native hotkey combo, I created a autohotkey script that would do that and had a mini-tutorial that showed how.

https://forum.digikey.com/t/add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-eve...

Re: Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

#17

Post by nend » Thu, May 12, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

It's useful if you want to copy, say a bulleted list over, or keep various bold/italicized words.

I would say it's usually 50/50 whether I want to keep the formatting or not. But either way most applications support both copy with formatting and copy without formatting.

Re: Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

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Post by hitgeek » Thu, May 12, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

agreed, like others I often resort to using notepad to remove all styling then copy/paste again.

Re: Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

#19

Post by msbarnett » Thu, May 12, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

tlb wrote: post #7

luxeo223 wrote: post #3

Ctrl-Shift-V pastes without formatting in most applications

Command-option-shift-V in Safari. A real finger-twister.

You can remap “paste-and-match-style” to command-v globally, thankfully.

Re: Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

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Post by ZeWaka » Thu, May 12, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

bombledmonk wrote: post #16

In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v. Outlook desktop is one of the few places where this hotkey does not work. Before I knew there was a native hotkey combo, I created a autohotkey script that would do that and had a mini-tutorial that showed how. https://forum.digikey.com/t/add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-eve...

It's incredibly annoying in Outlook. Every other Microsoft product I've used like Word supports the key-combo, but of course Outlook has to be different.