[TxMt] Re: TM modifies/destroys the contents of the system-wide pasteboard

[Joshua Kehn]

I understand the problem, I'm saying I don't find copying already formatted text a priority.

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. 

Regards,

-Josh___________________________________________
Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn at gmail.com
http://joshuakehn.com

On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Watts Martin wrote:

> Joshua Kehn wrote:
> > Never really was one for copying rich text. Causes more hassles then
> > it's worth in my opinion.
> 
> I'm not sure you're understanding the problem that Mel described.
> 
> (1) Open a TextEdit document.
> (2) Add a few lines of text and then style some of them: make one 
> italic, one bold, one a different font, one centered.
> (3) Copy these lines with Cmd-C or the edit menu.
> (4) Paste them onto the end of the document just to verify that you get 
> back what you copied, with all the styles.
> (5) Switch to an open TextMate window. Don't do ANYTHING. Just switch to it.
> (6) Switch back to TextEdit and hit Cmd-V for paste again.
> (7) The pasted text will have lost all of its styling.
> 
> Maybe you have a workflow in which you never, ever, ever copy styled 
> text to the Clipboard and expect it to retain its styles. I don't 
> usually work with styled text, either, but I can't guarantee I never 
> will -- and Mel is absolutely right. TextMate has absolutely no business 
> mucking about with the clipboard when no command that should touch the 
> clipboard is invoked. This may be a bug that few people encounter, but 
> it's a potentially serious one for people who use the clipboard a lot. 
> (And it's one I've just opened a ticket on.)
> 
> -- 
> Watts Martin <layotl at gmail.com>
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