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SomeUserName432today at 9:36 AM4 repliesview on HN

I find notepad useful for sanitising clipboard content.

No bold text, italics, bullet points, invisible html.. Just get the text and can copy it to paste again somewhere else.

Ala Cmd+Shift+V on Mac


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setopttoday at 9:46 AM

I somewhat regularly use the almost embarrassing key sequence Ctrl-C Ctrl-L Ctrl-V Ctrl-A Ctrl-X to sanitize text I’ve copied from a browser, using the address field to remove any formatting.

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xnorswaptoday at 9:39 AM

You can Ctrl+shift+v to paste plain text in windows.

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SoKamiltoday at 11:38 AM

I always used browser address bar for that. But giving it a second thought, I uploaded the data to Google servers.

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hsbauauvhabzbtoday at 11:51 AM

Win+r, ctrl+v, ctrl+a, ctrl+x, esc does this without spawning a non ephemeral window