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

[Greg D. <gre...@in...>]

I like this solution better than one which disables rectangular selections - something I use frequently in Alpha.  Well done!

On 4/21/17 3:29 PM, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
> Eureka! I found the solution. It is in fact sooooo easy and soooo elegant !
> Finally I have installed a new preference called /Copy Includes Font Info/ in the /General/ panel of the /Global Preferences/ dialog (with value 0 by
> default). This preserves both multiple selections and rectangular selections. The trick was to subclass the /writablePasteboardTypes/ in class
> /AlphaTextPane/.
> 
> Changes committed to the repository (rev. 1325 <http://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/code/1325/>). The core must be rebuilt.
> 
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> *[tickets:#120] <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/120/> Copy copies also font info*
> 
> *Status:* open
> *Created:* Tue Apr 04, 2017 07:31 PM UTC by Joachim Kock
> *Last Updated:* Fri Apr 21, 2017 11:07 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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