[MlMt] pasting text from Word into a message

[Patrik Fältström]

Randall, you should know this better than me, but it is when pasting you choose which one of the buffers one should get data from, not when copying. Right?

  Patrik

On 30 Aug 2020, at 21:56, Randall Gellens wrote:

> Is there perhaps an option in Word to copy as text? My version of Word has some "copy as..." options.
>
> --Randall
>
> On 29 Aug 2020, at 0:19, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 28 Aug 2020, at 23:43, Shoshanna Green wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running version 1.13.2 (5712), and when I copy text in Word and paste it into a message composer window, it turns into an attached .png image rather than text.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that only happens because Word puts a png on the pasteboard as an alternative to the text. I guess that's a feature, but it's a bit weird...
>>
>>> (Whereas if I copy text from
>>> TextEdit, it pastes into a message correctly.) If I paste text from Word as quoted text, with command-option-V, it does paste as text; but then I have to un-quote and reflow it.
>>>
>>> I know Word is the devil, but it's the unavoidable devil. How can I paste text from it into a message I'm composing? Or is this another in-progress feature/issue?
>>
>> It's not a known issue, but it might be tricky to fix without breaking something else. I think the best is probably to add an explicit shortcut for pasting as text allowing the user to force MailMate to pick the text alternative. That would likely be ⌥⇧⌘V. I'll make a note of that.
>>
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