djohngo
What kind of psychopath wants formatting included when pasting?
Mar 27, 2023 at 9:04pmWeb
Show threadResunaMar 27, 2023
@djohngo what's worse when I copy and paste from a terminal the foreground and background colors get carried along with it whoever wants that even if they want to retain formatting?
Show threaddjohngoMar 27, 2023
@resuna Yes. That is quite mad. It gets me every time because how could something so awful exist?
Show threadResunaMar 27, 2023
@djohngo my terminal color is selected arbitrarily based on a hash of the host name.
Show threadMichael KnudsenMar 28, 2023
@resuna @djohngo how do you achieve this?
Show threadResunaMar 28, 2023

@mk @djohngo

tell application "Terminal"
tell the front window
set the background color to { %s }
end tell
set windowID to id of the front window
end tell

Show threadResunaMar 28, 2023

@mk @djohngo Then to reset it:

tell application terminal
tell window id %s
set the background color to { %s }
end tell
end tell

The %ses are a cheesy way of passing parameters to the applescript.

Show threadMax ReesMar 27, 2023
@resuna what terminal emulator is putting fg/bg colors in copied content? 🤮
Show threadChristine HallMar 27, 2023
@djohngo No crap! I get so tired of that.
Show threadKailaMar 27, 2023
@djohngo Especially from Teams when you use a dark background and into Azure Dev Ops where it keeps the black background but converts the text to black. This isn't at all something that happened to me at least once a week...
Show threadlj·rkMar 27, 2023
@djohngo I hate it but I kinda get it when I think of the standard "office worker" workflow b/w MS Word, Excel and Outlook where it may be reasonable that, say, copying something from a Word document into an E-Mail should retain formatting.
Show threadMike GaruccioMar 28, 2023

@ljrk @djohngo

At one point this use-case did make sense, and I’m sure it was seen as a feature when it launched, but on the latest versions the default fonts/sizes are different across those apps, and outlook will switch to the font/size of your copied text, so if you don’t pay attention you end up with text that appears to randomly change style halfway through your doc.

Show threadlj·rkMar 28, 2023
@mgaruccio @djohngo Ugh, that's unexpected. I've at least expected it to be consistent within the MS Office suite.
Show threadNegative12DollarBillMar 27, 2023
@djohngo
I can see a case for it. But that feature should be behind some special obscure key combination like Alt-Left-Control-Shift-V, not the default.
Show threadPeteMar 27, 2023

@djohngo

Ctrl-Alt-V works in Microsoft products if that's of any consolation.

Show threadAndrewMar 28, 2023
@pete @djohngo alt-ctrl-v also works in Gnome. This has become my default paste key combo, because fuck carrying over formatting.
Show threadLisPiMar 28, 2023

@djohngo I want multiple pasting/yanking functions with well-documented prefix structures.

Yes this isn't supposed to make any sense outside of #Emacs.

Show threadWilliam VambenepeMar 28, 2023
@djohngo Keep the hyperlinks and the bullet points. Drop everything else (font, color, size, etc).
Show threadLucasVieitesMar 28, 2023
@djohngo the lazy kind?
Show threaddjohngoMar 28, 2023
@lucasvieites I feel like I'm the lazy one because I just want to paste--not paste, undo, then paste again a slightly different way.
Show threadLucasVieitesApr 5, 2023
@djohngo I get that and, trust me, it's very discernible from the people who just want to copy someone else's work (and sometimes even make it pass as their own). Many years of editing KB articles have made me the skeptic I am today.
Show threadJoachim Mar 28, 2023
@djohngo everyone using markdown 😁
Show threaddjohngoMar 28, 2023
@joschi64 I always viewed markdown as a way to avoid learning HTML, but I already knew HTML, so I never learned markdown.