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[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 117 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Ctrl + Shift + V pastes without formatting on Windows

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sadly, doesn't work everywhere. Sometimes, this is still necessary.

[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funny enough, I've found Microsoft apps are the most inconsistent with this functionality

[–] gray@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah this doesn’t work anywhere in Office apps

Never in my entire life have I wanted to paste with formatting into a word doc, and you always have to click the stupid little clipboard icon after you paste to undo it.

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[–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Yes and after learning of the shortcut, it actually makes me angrier when I get formatted text.

[–] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Ctrl + Win + Alt + V works everywhere I've tried it.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Linux too, at least in most applications I've tried. Some will ask you when you ctrl+shift+v if you want to paste formatted or unformatted text.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Ctrl + Shift + V should paste without formatting, but for some reason Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Publisher) refuses to follow this standard.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been on Windows since 3.0 and only recently learned that. Use it almost every day now.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Same, I've been using PCs with Microsoft operating systems since fuckin' MS-DOS 3.2 and I only learned about it a couple years ago.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't think it's OS dependent.

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[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] dmegatool@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not 100% accurate though. It's app dependant, sometimes it work (most of the time) but in some app it won't (office?)

I got Pure Text from Windows Store. Bind it to ctrl+shift+v and if now works everywhere, 100% of the time. That's the only feature of the app.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I maintain a small business website with notepad. HTML in the raw.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"Ah, you think IDEs are your ally. But you merely adopted the lDE. I was born in Notepad, molded by it. I didn't see syntax highlighting until I was already a man. By then, it was nothing to me but blinding!"

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone asked me what IDE I use for python and I’m so dumb I didn’t even know what they meant. I just said whatever the fedora gnome text editor app is… who needs IDEs!

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Real OG's let their brains do the highlighting, like God intended

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh god, I remember the days of creating webpages by hand-editing HTML in notepad. And not fondly.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

There are plenty of consenting adults who would be happy to punch you in the genitals, why not just do that instead?

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

You'd typically want Kate rather than KWrite, if you're gonna do development. Basically the same editor, but with more power-user features.

[–] normonator@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not in the new one. It had one job and it does it badly now.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

The new notepad is rage inducing

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[–] functionIsOdd@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I actually unironically use notepad when I need to write something down because of how quickly it opens up

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[–] libra00@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

My brother in Christ, let me introduce you to ctrl+shift+v

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait...what....??? I thought it's only me who use notepad to remove text formatting

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Yes but you woukd not need to if you just installed Ditto clipboard manager Just press shift-enter in ditto to paste in plain text anywhere

Learn to use this and it will change your life I SWEAR

https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/

The shortcut is CTRL+~

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[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here’s the deal Notepad, we can’t trust MS Word to remove all the nonsense.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

look mate some of us just like fonts. don't kinkshame

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[–] Mothproof4712@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does anyone else use the .LOG feature?

Put .LOG at the beginning of a text file. When opened in Notepad, you should get a date & time stamp.

Open filename.txt, type something, save and close.

Now you have a journal for system and config changes, document collections, time entries, client visits, whatever. Has worked on every Windows box I ever had to use.

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[–] rImITywR@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this something I'm too markdown/LaTeX pilled to understand?

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You copy some text from a webpage and put it in your email or word processor, it copies the formating too and everything looks wonky. If you paste the clipboard content in a text editor, like notepad and copy the text from there, you strip the formating.

That is what the post is refering to.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Nailed it, this is the only reason I've used notepad for years. Speaking of which, now that I'm permanently on Linux I should lfind a command line way to do this - there has to be one, if not many.

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[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you also want to remove line breaks, paste it into a url bar

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As a Mac user, in an LLM world, text editors are King.

I couldn't do my job anymore without them.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, that was the only way that worked consistently. Buttons like "Paste Without Formatting" failed in more than a few cases.


Past tense, because it works on Linux. But I still have the old habit and use KWrite sometimes.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Shift + ctrl + v is paste without formatting

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Every text editor removes formatting, plain txt files don't have any format. but text editors, like Notepad are very usefull to edit eg, config files or scripts, where isn't desirable to change the original format. There are apps way more useless than Notepads-

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

I just the other day edited a Steam config file with some wacky file extension by cracking it open in notepad. Bless plain text.

[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

I fuckin love Notepad. No decorations, no flourish, just me and my raw thoughts

[–] LennartMeri@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I just paste and then copy whatever i need into the address bar of any browser and its good to go. Unless its very long.

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[–] xye@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was already done with windows, but if I hadn’t decided yet the AI in notepad definitely would have put me over the edge. That’s insane.

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[–] Sparkega@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is literally my primary use of notepad.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ctrl+shift+v removes all formatting when you paste. You're welcome.

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Don't shame notepad! Just the other day I had to alter a host file so a computer could talk to a server! That's a very important thing and I wouldn't have been able to do it without trusty notepad!

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

lol too good

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