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

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

As an experiment, I have installed a new global preference called *Copy Restricted* which by-passes cocoa's default behavior and stores only the UTF8 text flavour into the pasteboard. This is like using `pasteboard write` and achieves what you want. But doing so we loose the nice copy/paste of rectangular selections. I'll see if I can make Alpha more clever to retrieve the flavour that Cocoa *would* store in case of a rectangular selection and to install it in the pasteboard. My previous attempts at filtering the copies provided by cocoa have been unsuccesfull so far.



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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:** Thu Apr 20, 2017 11:04 AM 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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