Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

Re:Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/format... by hanoz on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:30PM (#31358235)

> In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v.

Sometimes that trick just stops working for no reason at all, then there's nothing else for it but to paste into notepad.exe and re-copy.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/format... by jimlikeslimes on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:39PM (#31359249)

Just to kind of address the Outlook issue, you can also set the default paste setting to be text only. (sigh) we have to do this.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/format... by rhco on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:51PM (#31359392)

This is one of my many peeves with Outlooks UX. You can do Ctrl+Alt+V, which gives you an option to paste unformatted, but it's much more finger-intensive than the other shortcut.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/format... by zinekeller on Friday May 13, 2022 @12:55AM (#31363489)

This is one of those rare times that you can trace it directly to Bill Gates. Another one is Ctrl+F as send and not find (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140715-00/?p=50...)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/format... by conductr on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:42PM (#31359295)

You have to consider the average user though. They have an image and 4 fonts in their signature, one of which is Comic Sans

[ Parent | on HN ]