Would you prefer Ctrl+V to paste without formatting by default?

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4 pointsnoseratio3 comments

Yup. This seems like it was probably a well-intentioned design decision initially: "If a user copies a list won't they expect a list when they paste?"

However the myriad variations on rich text these days make it hard to predict what the actual expected paste result would be.

Same thinking, tks. IMO, this should have been the default behavior for any OS, with another dedicated hotkey to paste with formatting.

I'm going to implement this for Windows at least, as a part of the tool I maintain (https://github.com/postprintum/devcomrade). I plan to use Windows Clipboard API to strip the rich formatting in-place, as it gets copied into the clipboard. Then it can be pasted using whatever the default hotkey or UI is.

Does it sound reasonable?

oh, definitely yes !

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