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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 6 days ago
[–] pastel_de_airfryer 115 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Ctrl + Shift + V pastes without formatting on Windows

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sadly, doesn't work everywhere. Sometimes, this is still necessary.

[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Funny enough, I've found Microsoft apps are the most inconsistent with this functionality

[–] gray@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

Yes and after learning of the shortcut, it actually makes me angrier when I get formatted text.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Ctrl + Shift + V should paste without formatting, but for some reason Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Publisher) refuses to follow this standard.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been on Windows since 3.0 and only recently learned that. Use it almost every day now.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

Can anyone confirm if that keeps Jira from doing that "uploading an image" thing when pasting text?

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[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dmegatool@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I maintain a small business website with notepad. HTML in the raw.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"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!"

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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!

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Real OG's let their brains do the highlighting, like God intended

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh god, I remember the days of creating webpages by hand-editing HTML in notepad. And not fondly.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

There are plenty of consenting adults who would be happy to punch you in the genitals, why not just do that instead?

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[–] normonator@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not in the new one. It had one job and it does it badly now.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

The new notepad is rage inducing

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[–] functionIsOdd@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I actually unironically use notepad when I need to write something down because of how quickly it opens up

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[–] libra00@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

My brother in Christ, let me introduce you to ctrl+shift+v

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait...what....??? I thought it's only me who use notepad to remove text formatting

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (15 children)

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+~

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[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Here’s the deal Notepad, we can’t trust MS Word to remove all the nonsense.

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[–] Mothproof4712@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] rImITywR@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this something I'm too markdown/LaTeX pilled to understand?

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Nailed it, this is the only reason I've used notepad for years. Speaking of which, now that I'm permanently on Linux I should lfind a command line way to do this - there has to be one, if not many.

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[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you also want to remove line breaks, paste it into a url bar

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As a Mac user, in an LLM world, text editors are King.

I couldn't do my job anymore without them.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, that was the only way that worked consistently. Buttons like "Paste Without Formatting" failed in more than a few cases.


Past tense, because it works on Linux. But I still have the old habit and use KWrite sometimes.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Shift + ctrl + v is paste without formatting

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm trying to remember if I've ever run kwrite beyond the first time 20 years ago when I wanted to see what it was.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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-

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[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

I fuckin love Notepad. No decorations, no flourish, just me and my raw thoughts

[–] LennartMeri@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I just paste and then copy whatever i need into the address bar of any browser and its good to go. Unless its very long.

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[–] xye@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was already done with windows, but if I hadn’t decided yet the AI in notepad definitely would have put me over the edge. That’s insane.

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[–] Sparkega@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is literally my primary use of notepad.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ctrl+shift+v removes all formatting when you paste. You're welcome.

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some apps (e.g. Microsoft Word) override ctrl+shift+v.

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Don't shame notepad! Just the other day I had to alter a host file so a computer could talk to a server! That's a very important thing and I wouldn't have been able to do it without trusty notepad!

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

lol too good

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