Re: What happened to the option to not copy coloring and styling from the editor?
Re: What happened to the option to not copy coloring and styling from the editor?
- Subject: Re: What happened to the option to not copy coloring and styling from the editor?
- From: Jean-Denis Muys <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:16:57 +0100
On 7 févr. 2013, at 04:57, "Mills, Steve" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 21:12, "Gavin Stokes" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Typical Apple workaround: a four-key hotkey for a Paste operation.
>>
>> So this hotkey exists even in apps that don't handle styled text? Because if not, you have to guess which applications handle styled text, or gnarl your hand into a claw to try this hotkey every time and then try again with Cmd-V if they don't.
>
> Why would a non-styled text editor offer Paste and Match Style or Paste as Plain Text when their regular Paste command does exactly that? Besides, it's not that hard to hold down all 4 modifier keys with just 2 fingers.
Plus it's easy to change the keyboard shortcut.
Also I checked: and Xcode already put plain (unstyled) text in the pasteboard when you copy. It actually put it in several such plain text variations:
- UTF8
- UTF16
- "classic" Mac OS where newlines are CR (0x0D) instead of LF (0x0A)
You can check for yourself with Apple's code sample named "Clipboard Viewer".
So I don't know there is anything more you can ask from Xcode. Suggesting that application A (Xcode) should go out of its standard way to work around application B shortcomings is preposterous. I'd rather have Xcode developers fix real Xcode bugs ([copy/]pasting rectangular text selections to just mention one related to the topic).
Keary wrote:
> I think you would agree that the real solution is for Apple to open up access to their compilers so that third parties can create IDE's that better suit developers' needs because Apple clearly doesn't care about our needs. Then maybe they will have some parity with every other platform in existence...
Apple already has. See http://llvm.org.
Jean-Denis
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