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Re:Get rid of those boolean function parameters (2015) by fxtentacle on Monday September 20, 2021 @06:56PM (#28600092)
Your IDE could automatically add those annotations as rich text or embedded HTML when you copy the source code out from the IDE into the E-Mail.
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Re:Get rid of those boolean function parameters (2015) by tsimionescu on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @04:52PM (#28609776)
Would it be rich text when I copy to WordPad and HTML when I copy to a web page? Would it also support Markdown and maybe wiki ML? Would IntelliJ know that when I'm pasting code to an Emacs buffer in java-mode it should paste plain text, but when I'm pasting to an Emacs buffer that is an email, it should instead add org-mode annotations?

Overall this concept of copy/pasting with context is nice, but it only works for applications that have a defined API between them, such as MS Office OLE objects. In all other cases, pasting plain text is better than any "smart" solution.

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