Pasted formatted text in workspace

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a simple hack to prevent text pasted into a workspace from
(say) Outlook Express or IE bringing its formatting information with it ?  I.e.
to paste it as plain text, not as a snippet of rich text.

I've getting heartily sick of pasting everything into PFE, then re-copying the
plain text, before pasting into the workspace...

Act now!  This is *your* chance to save an ageing programmer's sanity!

TIA

    -- chris

"Chris Uppal" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know of a simple hack to prevent text pasted into a workspace
from
> (say) Outlook Express or IE bringing its formatting information with it ?
I.e.
> to paste it as plain text, not as a snippet of rich text.
>
> I've getting heartily sick of pasting everything into PFE, then re-copying
the
> plain text, before pasting into the workspace...
>
> Act now!  This is *your* chance to save an ageing programmer's sanity!
>
> TIA
>

Chris, have you tried the 'Paste Text' command on the workspace context menu
(an excellent suggestion from Steve Waring)?

Unfortunately this doesn't work in reverse, so unless the target app.
supports a similar command, you end up pasting rich text into it if copied
from a workspace. Perhaps a 'Copy Text' is needed too.

Regards

Blair

Blair,

> > Does anyone know of a simple hack to prevent text pasted into a
> > workspace from (say) Outlook Express or IE bringing its formatting
> > information with it ? I.e. to paste it as plain text, not as a
> > snippet of rich text.
> [...]
> Chris, have you tried the 'Paste Text' command on the workspace
> context menu (an excellent suggestion from Steve Waring)?

No I hadn't.  Hadn't even noticed it was there!

Many thanks (and Steve too).

Would it be a good idea to bind that function to an accelerator like
Ctrl+Shift+V (as I have just done) ?


> Unfortunately this doesn't work in reverse, so unless the target app.
> supports a similar command, you end up pasting rich text into it if
> copied from a workspace. Perhaps a 'Copy Text' is needed too.

It would be nice -- if only because it'd be easier to paste code from Dolphin
into postings in this NG ;-)


    -- chris

"Blair McGlashan" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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>
> Chris, have you tried the 'Paste Text' command on the workspace context
menu
> (an excellent suggestion from Steve Waring)?

This is what I do when I copy text from a web page.

"Chris Uppal" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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>
> Would it be a good idea to bind that function to an accelerator like
> Ctrl+Shift+V (as I have just done) ?

If you've already done it, why are you asking them? :)