{"id":149,"date":"2009-09-18T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2011-11-04T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:56:12","slug":"why-can%e2%80%99t-paste-be-%e2%80%9cpaste-as-plain-text%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Why Can\u2019t Paste be \u201cPaste as Plain Text\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I no longer use the Paste command (Cmd+V). Paste has become utterly useless to me in the last decade. If I use Paste in an email then the rest of my email has a different font and a different formatting. If I use paste in a word processor it invariably messes the document up in some way &#8211; non-matching format and\/or different font. When I use the Paste command I want just the text &#8211; not the formatting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That brings me to the Paste Special command. Unfortunately it\u2019s so cumbersome to use it\u2019s infuriating. I have to do a four finger salute. Four! Shift+Option+Cmd+V. And I have to grok another dialog which asks which of 2+ formats I want. Why can\u2019t Paste be \u201cPaste as Plain Text\u201d and Paste Special be \u201cPaste with Formatting\u201d? Cmd+V &#8211; that simple key sequence you learned the first week you used the computer. Paste has been overtaken by feature creep and I want it back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I no longer use the Paste command (Cmd+V). Paste has become utterly useless to me in the last decade. If I use Paste in an email then the rest of my email has a different font and a different formatting. If I use paste in a word processor it invariably messes the document up in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Can\u2019t Paste be \u201cPaste as Plain Text\u201d?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}