Copy-pasting without transferring format

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Hello,

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:15:44AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> > On 08/30/2013 10:11 AM, 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).
> > >
> >
> > Try a right click and see if there's a "paste without formatting"
> > option. It depends on the receiving application.  If not, keep a copy of
> > your favorite text editor open and use that as a mid-point.
>
> AFAIK LO calls it paste special (under the Edit menu, Ctrl + Shift + v).
>

  Thanks for the hint. "paste special", with short-cut Ctrl-Shift-V, is
actually a KDE Desktop feature, so it works in many places.

  If that could be added to the context menu, that would be even more
awesome.

     Best,
     Oliver
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