Copy-pasting without transferring format

[Bill Davidsen]

Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>
>       Hello,
>
>    I would like to be able to copy-paste text without transferring the format.
> I'm using F19 with KDE.
>
>    Currently, when I copy-paste (between Firefox, LibreOffice, etc), formatting
> like font, font size and font attributes get also copied and pasted. But I am
> looking for a way to copy-paste such that the format of the original text is
> discarded and instead the format of the target document is used, as if I had
> typed the text on the keyboard.
>
>    (My wife uses the following trick on Windows: copy-paste text into URL-field
> of the browser, then copy-paste from URL-field to destination).
>
>    Thanks!
>
>       Best,
>       Oliver
>

In many applications shift-ctrl-V calls paste-without-formatting. In some 
shift-ctrl-C does a cut-without-formatting (grab text only). At other times the 
past-without-formatting appears on the right click menu.


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