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Comment by ent101 | Hacker News Reader

I wonder what people use this for as it is too simple -- in my opinion at least.

Use myTextarea

    to type plain text
    to remove markup from text
    to count words and characters

For the first two I usually do Win+R, paste, Ctrl+A, copy.

Try Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V for a “plain paste”

cmd-shift-v does this on Macs, as well.

I've found that this doesn't consistently work across applications (win 10), does anyone else here experience the same and/or have an idea why this is the case?

I thought it was something an application had to implement, but apparently it is a Windows function that applications have to enable. Definitely wish it was an OS-wide shortcut.

https://www.howtogeek.com/186723/ask-htg-how-can-i-paste-tex...

Pro tip: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/

yeah I do that with sublime text...

1) Notepad 2) Notepad 3) Word

offline trustworthy solutions for Windows And most of all I don't have to worry about losing control over the text.

The only benefit I see (if it is possible) is collaboration, but on a work-related environment why use a text instead of Google Docs (which I don't use either, but I see the benefit of audit trail)

Notepad2 does all of this.

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