[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #120 Copy copies also font info

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Unfortunately, after a lot of experiments, it seems that there is no way of removing the rich data flavours from the pasteboard. There is no obvious API to remove a data type from the pasteboard anyway. I tried the hard way: after a copy instruction, I stored a copy of all the data types in a dictionary, then cleared the entire pasteboard (there is a command for this), then reconstructed the pasteboard items filtering out the rich text types. No matter what, the "public.rtf" item is back again. 
Also as soon as I switch to another application, the contents of the pasteboard change and much more types are present, including other rich text types. Maybe it is a question of data providers (promised data as opposed to actual data). 
 I can't think of any other solution and I give up.

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** [tickets:#120] Copy copies also font info**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Tue Apr 04, 2017 07:31 PM UTC by Joachim Kock
**Last Updated:** Wed Apr 19, 2017 07:43 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody

Alpha (in contrast to AlphaX) copies text WITH formatting, 
instead of just copying the text as a sequence of chars.

I think this is wrong, since the formatting is not an attribute 
of the text copied but only an artefact of how the text editor
presents the text on screen.

(In practical terms, when from time to time I have to edit a Word
document, I always found it useful to do as much as possible of 
the editing in AlphaX, before pasting it into Word, where it 
will be inserted free of formatting.  I hope this use of AlphaX 
can be inherited by Alpha.)

If for some reason the new behaviour is deemed useful, perhaps
this is not a bug report but a feature request: could we then have
a prefs flag for controlling this, please?

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