[MlMt] pasting text from Word into a message

[Patrik Fältström]

This was what I remembered...although so many years ago I did programming on the Mac:

<https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/StringsTextFonts/Conceptual/TextAndWebiPhoneOS/UsingCopy,Cut,andPasteOperations/UsingCopy,Cut,andPasteOperations.html>

   Patrik

On 31 Aug 2020, at 4:56, Patrik Fältström via mailmate wrote:

> 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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