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      Linux too, at least in most applications I’ve tried. Some will ask you when you ctrl+shift+v if you want to paste formatted or unformatted text.

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      Ctrl + Shift + V should paste without formatting, but for some reason Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Publisher) refuses to follow this standard.

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      Can anyone confirm if that keeps Jira from doing that “uploading an image” thing when pasting text?

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      Is there something like this for Mac users that have this stupid behavior ported over through the MS Office suite?

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      It’s not 100% accurate though. It’s app dependant, sometimes it work (most of the time) but in some app it won’t (office?)

      I got Pure Text from Windows Store. Bind it to ctrl+shift+v and if now works everywhere, 100% of the time. That’s the only feature of the app.

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      I also appreciate that Notepad notes now don’t need to be manually saved to a file. They’re probably in temp storage somewhere, but the point is you can just write and close.

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    Does anyone else use the .LOG feature?

    Put .LOG at the beginning of a text file. When opened in Notepad, you should get a date & time stamp.

    Open filename.txt, type something, save and close.

    Now you have a journal for system and config changes, document collections, time entries, client visits, whatever. Has worked on every Windows box I ever had to use.

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      You copy some text from a webpage and put it in your email or word processor, it copies the formating too and everything looks wonky. If you paste the clipboard content in a text editor, like notepad and copy the text from there, you strip the formating.

      That is what the post is refering to.

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        You copy some text from a webpage and put it in your markdown/LaTeX document in your text editor, like vim. Then you use pandoc/pdf-latex to export in whatever file format you need. It never looks wonky, it looks exactly like you tell it to.

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      I recently had to remove line breaks from the public key in a key pair, why did I never think of doing this

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    Every text editor removes formatting, plain txt files don’t have any format. but text editors, like Notepad are very usefull to edit eg, config files or scripts, where isn’t desirable to change the original format. There are apps way more useless than Notepads-

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      I just the other day edited a Steam config file with some wacky file extension by cracking it open in notepad. Bless plain text.

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    Yeah, that was the only way that worked consistently. Buttons like “Paste Without Formatting” failed in more than a few cases.


    Past tense, because it works on Linux. But I still have the old habit and use KWrite sometimes.

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        Outlook intercepts and disables it because of course it does and instead pastes it with the formatting but with a little drop down box at the end of your text pass address you can click to remove the formatting like you tried to do with you with hotkeys.

        I have to use Outlook for work, but never intentionally do so if I choice. Truly amazing. If there’s anything that can be messed up, it will be.

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      I’m trying to remember if I’ve ever run kwrite beyond the first time 20 years ago when I wanted to see what it was.

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    I just paste and then copy whatever i need into the address bar of any browser and its good to go. Unless its very long.

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        Im using safari and more recently opera, but since that is chinese now, im guessing this isnt much better :D

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        I use Firefox with DuckDuckGo. But I do agree that Google is so pervasive in the browser space that pasting text to the URL bar without further context can be reasonably understood in most instances, as sending data to Google.