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[Brendan Kidwell <brendan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Murat, thank you for that workaround. I was not aware that Copy As
existed because it's missing from the Edit menu.

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017, at 05:29, Murat Güven wrote:
> just my 2 cents on this topic. May be it helps solving the issue.
> 
> Within my plugin "Convert2tags2mail" I provide a method to send the note 
> text as a mail to the selected tags.
> 
> For this, I use :
> mail_body = ''.join(self.window.pageview.page.dump(format='plain'))
> 
> Many times, the mail_body is truncated (say: not complete) or empty.
> 
> My workaround is then to select the whole note text within Zim, right 
> click and select "copy as" and then paste into the new (Outlook) mail 
> window.
> 
> This issue happens with all Windows versions, no matter of 32 bit or 64
> bit.
> 
> So I suspect, it's not the clipboard but the the page dumper method 
> which does not work properly.
> 
> Regards,
> Murat