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Re:Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts by innocenat on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:24AM (#37223161)
Copy image from one place to another. Copy entire powerpoint slide between presentation. Copy table from web to word.
Re:Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts by nixass on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:02AM (#37223752)
How many times in a day you do that versus pasting with no formatting?
Re:Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts by stronglikedan on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:39AM (#37224313)
Exceptionally more, personally.
Re:Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts by w0m on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:25PM (#37225911)
Honestly - Depends on the Job. When coding, I generally want ~no formatting by default. But When I'm pulling a code chunks into an email or similar; to preserve easier readability I can either copy from terminal with formatting or send a screenshot (which recipient then can't copy if they want to play with it). You could say "Use a different tool!" like Gist or similar; but that's often overkill.
Re:Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts by pynappo on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:47PM (#37226208)
On a daily basis, i paste into programs that aren't wysiwyg (terminal, reddit, browser omnibar, etc) much more often than stuff that is (google docs, powerpoint). for the former programs it doesn't matter if i paste with or without formatting.

for the latter programs having the default be paste with formatting seems fine. yes, i'll paste stuff from the web without formatting. But copying/cutting/pasting within the same document is also a pretty common interaction and if i'm cutting something non-trivial (eg. google docs table/nested lists), i don't want to paste it back into google docs as a bunch of regular, separate lines.