Ctrl + Shift + V pastes without formatting on Windows
Sadly, doesn’t work everywhere. Sometimes, this is still necessary.
Funny enough, I’ve found Microsoft apps are the most inconsistent with this functionality
Yeah this doesn’t work anywhere in Office apps
Never in my entire life have I wanted to paste with formatting into a word doc, and you always have to click the stupid little clipboard icon after you paste to undo it.
Yes and after learning of the shortcut, it actually makes me angrier when I get formatted text.
Ctrl + Win + Alt + V works everywhere I’ve tried it.
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.
I’ve been on Windows since 3.0 and only recently learned that. Use it almost every day now.
Same, I’ve been using PCs with Microsoft operating systems since fuckin’ MS-DOS 3.2 and I only learned about it a couple years ago.
Can anyone confirm if that keeps Jira from doing that “uploading an image” thing when pasting text?
I don’t think it’s OS dependent.
Ctrl + Shift + V should paste without formatting, but for some reason Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Publisher) refuses to follow this standard.
Is there something like this for Mac users that have this stupid behavior ported over through the MS Office suite?
CMD + Shift + V
I maintain a small business website with notepad. HTML in the raw.
“Ah, you think IDEs are your ally. But you merely adopted the lDE. I was born in Notepad, molded by it. I didn’t see syntax highlighting until I was already a man. By then, it was nothing to me but blinding!”
Someone asked me what IDE I use for python and I’m so dumb I didn’t even know what they meant. I just said whatever the fedora gnome text editor app is… who needs IDEs!
Real OG’s let their brains do the highlighting, like God intended
Oh god, I remember the days of creating webpages by hand-editing HTML in notepad. And not fondly.
I enjoyed it :(
I mean I’m not here to shit on anybody else’s good time, I just hated it myself.
There are plenty of consenting adults who would be happy to punch you in the genitals, why not just do that instead?
You’d typically want Kate rather than KWrite, if you’re gonna do development. Basically the same editor, but with more power-user features.
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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.
Not in the new one. It had one job and it does it badly now.
The new notepad is rage inducing
Get off notepad nightlies.
I actually unironically use notepad when I need to write something down because of how quickly it opens up
Here’s the deal Notepad, we can’t trust MS Word to remove all the nonsense.
look mate some of us just like fonts. don’t kinkshame
My brother in Christ, let me introduce you to ctrl+shift+v
Wait…what…??? I thought it’s only me who use notepad to remove text formatting
Yes but you woukd not need to if you just installed Ditto clipboard manager Just press shift-enter in ditto to paste in plain text anywhere
Learn to use this and it will change your life I SWEAR
https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
The shortcut is CTRL+~
Great suggestion but incompatible with windows available in corpo.
Ha! Welcome to the club, normie! :-)
Is this something I’m too markdown/LaTeX pilled to understand?
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.
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.
If you also want to remove line breaks, paste it into a url bar
I recently had to remove line breaks from the public key in a key pair, why did I never think of doing this
As a Mac user, in an LLM world, text editors are King.
I couldn’t do my job anymore without them.
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-
I just the other day edited a Steam config file with some wacky file extension by cracking it open in notepad. Bless plain text.
I fuckin love Notepad. No decorations, no flourish, just me and my raw thoughts
This is literally my primary use of notepad.
ctrl+shift+v removes all formatting when you paste. You’re welcome.
Some apps (e.g. Microsoft Word) override ctrl+shift+v.
That’s… extraordinarily stupid. Sounds like you need better word processing software.
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.
