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Clipboard Normalizer

jefftk.com

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Thanks, this is one of these small things I’m used to working around instead of finding a solution.

Countless times I’ve used the browser address bar to reduce text to plain text. Which in some browsers doesn’t work anymore (feature): which could be worked around by pasting more, then removing a character. - It was fast and always in view. The real issue is that I usually don’t want formatting… until I do. :)

Isn't there a shortcut to past without formatting? Ctrl+Shift+v? (Or whatever the hell Apple came up with for macOS.)

That's right, cmd+shift+V pastes without formatting. And there's also a context menu option for that.

I’ve noticed more that context menu doesn’t appear frequently

Just yesterday I noticed that if you do "paste text only" when pasting a URL in Outlook, the link is no longer clickable, just a string of text. Maybe it would turn into a clickable link by the time the email reaches its recipient, who knows. But I ended up doing the "paste into notepad and re-copy" thing.

Normally I also use the address bar, but these days if you copy-paste a web address from Edge to Outlook/Teams, it won't show up as the URL itself but the page's title as a hyperlink.

Browser bar technique - yes!

Alt+Tab (switch to browser), Alt+D (to get to the browser bar), Ctrl+V (paste), Ctrl+A (select all), Ctrl+C (copy), Alt+Tab (switch to application), Ctrl+V (paste unformatted text)

What a muscle memory! Wish Ctrl+Shift+V (paste plain text) was standardized at the OS level.

Note: Using Mint Debian Linux, but the same flow seems to apply to Windows & Mac.

Bonus: I really wish copying a file in the GUI (Finder on Mac, file explorer on Linux) would default to pasting the full file path/name, when pasting into plain text. I can't believe how difficult it is to get the actual file name in a modern OS!

I always used Alfred for this. A snippet for {clipboard} which effectively pastes in plain text. I also have workflows to manipulate text that are basically: pbpaste | (do something) | pbcopy

> Replacing Pandoc (GPL and so incompatible the the App Store TOS)

... wait, you can't publish an app using GPL components to the app store? What's the point of this? .. oh, that made quite some noise around 2010 https://lwn.net/Articles/391423/ but I had forgotten all about it... Impressed this still stands...

It might not for GPLv3: it tries to sidestep it by explicitly voiding any clauses placing additional restrictions, but Pandoc is using GPLv2

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9500/is-apple...

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/#license

pbpaste | pbcopy

Make a shell script and add to services

You can't put rich text on the clipboard with pbcopy.

But this is basically what I tried first: https://www.jefftk.com/p/clipboard-normalization

thanks for sharing, a github would be nice.

https://github.com/jeffkaufman/clipboard-markdown

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> This app is currently not available in your country or region.

Fuck you Apple.

It's up to the developer to choose where to publish it.

That's weird, I thought I selected all the regions. Where are you based?

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