Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1785 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin 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? 

I paste it into office, then copy it, Ctrl-Z, then reinsert with paste
special. 

> If I use the copy buffer, then I can select the text, use ctrl+c and
> then use ctrl+shift+v and choose 'unformatted text', but so "the hell
> much" for efficiency. 

I guess I don't do it often enough to worry much about the latter. 

> That requires a 'select' and then an additional ctrl+c to 
> copy, then a ctrl+shift+v to bring up the 'paste special dialog' and
> then a select of 'unformatted text' just to paste WHAT USED TO BE a
> simple efficient 'select/middle-mouse' (done).
>
> What gives? Surely the developers are not so stupid as to believe
> every user wants to paste size 64 red text into a spreadsheet and not
> even leave a simple way to disable the format copy so you can still
> use the select buffer to get work done.

IIRC, it's not exactly new - I'm using FF 7.0 and I haven't noticed any
such change in behaviour.  Sorry I can't really answer your question. 


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Per Jessen, Zürich (2.7°C)

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