<div> <div> <span>I understand the problem, I'm saying I don't find copying already formatted text a priority.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The fact that it does muck with the clipboard would be an annoyance if you routinely tab through TextMate on your way to pasting RTF copy into another application. <br> </span> <span><br><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>-Josh</div>___________________________________________<div><div>Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn@gmail.com</div><div>http://joshuakehn.com</div></div></span>  <p style="color: #a0a0a0;">On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Watts Martin wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"> <span><div><div><br>Joshua Kehn wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Never really was one for copying rich text. Causes more hassles then<br>it's worth in my opinion.<br></div></blockquote><br>I'm not sure you're understanding the problem that Mel described.<br><br>(1) Open a TextEdit document.<br>(2) Add a few lines of text and then style some of them: make one <br>italic, one bold, one a different font, one centered.<br>(3) Copy these lines with Cmd-C or the edit menu.<br>(4) Paste them onto the end of the document just to verify that you get <br>back what you copied, with all the styles.<br>(5) Switch to an open TextMate window. Don't do ANYTHING. Just switch to it.<br>(6) Switch back to TextEdit and hit Cmd-V for paste again.<br>(7) The pasted text will have lost all of its styling.<br><br>Maybe you have a workflow in which you never, ever, ever copy styled <br>text to the Clipboard and expect it to retain its styles. I don't <br>usually work with styled text, either, but I can't guarantee I never <br>will -- and Mel is absolutely right. TextMate has absolutely no business <br>mucking about with the clipboard when no command that should touch the <br>clipboard is invoked. This may be a bug that few people encounter, but <br>it's a potentially serious one for people who use the clipboard a lot. <br>(And it's one I've just opened a ticket on.)<br><br>-- <br>Watts Martin <<a href="mailto:layotl@gmail.com">layotl@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div><br>_______________________________________________<br>textmate mailing list<br><a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a><br></div></div></span> <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #f0f0f0; height: 10px;"> </div> <br> <div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 5px;">Attachments:</div> <div> <div style="">- smime.p7s</div> </div> </blockquote> <div> <br> </div> </div> </div>