Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1785 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/24/2011 04:26 PM, David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Guys,
>
>    I HATE the fact that the new browsers and office suites try to think for you
> but end up totally screwing up functionality. Today with documents/spreadsheets
> being created from multiple web-based sources, every time I go to copy something
> from the web and then paste it into a document, even with the
> select/middle-mouse (select buffer), it pastes the damn source format of the web
> page totally borking the document I'm working on. Libre office is the absolute
> worst about this, OO a bit better, but still plagued by it, now firefox is
> basically useless as a source for document creation.
>
>    In firefox, if I select anything and then middle-mouse paste using the select
> buffer, the damn formatting comes along too. How in the heck do I tell it to
> stop this crap?
> <snip>
> </rant>

When pasting data use "Insert Special" under the "Edit" pull-down where 
you can paste the buffer unformatted.

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Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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