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

[Steve King]

On 2011-04-27 06:59, Gaby Vanhegan wrote:
> Appropriately styled as per each line. When I pasted the text back in 
> to TextEdit (step 7) all four lines were underlined and the other 
> stylings had been lost. This happened if there was a document open in 
> TextMate or not. If I change the order of the lines, it still comes 
> back all underlined.
> I am using OSX 10.6.7 and TextMate 1.5.10 (1623)

Ditto here. Same OS rev, slightly newer version of TextMate: 1.5.10 (1631)

I think the fact that everything is underlined when you paste it back 
into TextEdit is a red herring.  That's what I got the first time, too, 
but I tried again after explicitly setting the style back to "Default".  
Just plain text, no underlining.  I'm pretty sure the underlining is 
just due to that being the current style at your cursor position when 
you did the paste.

I've never noticed this before in years of using TextMate. Actually, if 
I'd known I might have considered it a feature.  I often copy some 
styled text, paste it into TextMate to remove the styling, then copy and 
paste it from TM into something else.  I could have saved a copy/paste 
step! :-)  (But I agree with the original assessment, it's bad form to 
mess with the pasteboard contents.)

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Steve King
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