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[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/12/21 Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Jaap. You don't know how bad I wish I could start testing, but
>> I simply do not have the time to set up a test environment right now.
>> I know that it will me who pays for that in the end, now is the time
>> to file bugs critical to my workflow.
>>
>>
>> > * Rich copy-paste in the editor is now supported, including HTML format
>> > for
>> > pasting to e.g. Open Office
>>
>> Is this configurable? I personally _hate_ rich-text paste!
>
> I would say the receiving application should implement "paste special" to
> offer alternative formats. How the copy-paste protocol works, the sending
> application just offers all formats it can handle, while the receiving
> application decides what format to request in a particular context.
>
> That being said we could enforce this by just offering a very limited set of
> formats. Not sure why we would want that though. Feel free to make it a
> hidden option, all the relevant code is in zim/gui/clipboard.py and the
> config interface is in zim/config.py.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaap
>

OOo does have Paste as Text as an option. I have it on a keybinding.

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