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Would probably be better to do this at the OS level, no? Just ensure that shift-cmd-V/shift-ctrl-V strips zero-width characters in addition to formatting. I can't think of a situation where I'd want to keep one but not the other, and you could always do that manually if it came up.

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Arabic? I think the are cases where letters are joined or not by default, but sometimes need to be forced to the other state, depending on meaning that the text layout engine isn't expected to be able to figure out.

If it'd also optionally (default=true) strip text formatting from copy/paste that'd be epic. No more copy-from-browser-then-paste-into-notepad-then-copy-from-notepad-then-paste-into-email-or-chat

What matthberg said. I'm on a Mac and I use shift-cmd-V frequently (more often than cmd-V).

Unfortunately, there are a few apps that use cmd-opt-shift-V instead of cmd-shift-V. You can fix most of them using this:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/182970/paste-to-ma...

After that, almost everything will use cmd-shift-V. However, Microsoft Word is still broken, apparently because it uses a slightly different command that does a similar thing, "Paste and Match Formatting". Haven't found a way to fix that yet.

Linux.

In a good few applications that is exactly what Ctrl+Shift+V does. Try it in Chrome or Firefox, it pastes without formatting.

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