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Comment by dagmx | Hacker News Reader

You can just hit the option key to take a screenshot of an app without the shadow. No need to go and change system wide defaults

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If screenshots are a part of the daily workflow, changing the setting makes everything easier

Wish I could change copy/paste to always work without copying style.

Do you mean regular clipboard text? You can do that with: ⇧ ⌥ ⌘ V

This is not necessarily supported everywhere though...

Oh you can usually for sure, it’s just a bit too close to a gymnastic manoeuvre.

I also believe it should be the copy that strips the style.

You can add a global keyboard shortcut that makes this command much easier. I’ve done it and life is so much better now.

Some kind of clipboard manager should be able to munge it that way (Ok, it's 15 years since I wrote clipboard code in "OS X") - a background app and clipboard manager that basically removes style info from the items on the clipboard.

Really wish this was the default, with an option to turn on "paste with formatting". It'd be interesting to see with telemetry how many users choose that.

FWIW, in my many decades of using computers, I've never once wanted to paste with styles as whatever app is getting pasted into inevitably (without exception, like 100% of the time) "guesses" the formatting incorrectly.

There were some amazing workarounds to the default discussed her recently. One suggested pasting into the browser url field then copying and pasting out of it.

The default is crazy.

There isn't that much practical reason to include the shadow though. In fact it tends to just make the important stuff smaller when sharing with someone because there's a bunch of border space surrounding the content, and whatever they're viewing in will show all of that unless they zoom in.

There's no contrast between a white window and a white background if you don't have the shadow.

This is the real tip.

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