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This might be well-known, but I just discovered it now. I wanted to copy some text from a Web page to an email message, so I copied the text in Safari and pasted it into a mail message. The pasted text included all sorts of hidden junk, such as comments, javascript and extra line breaks. So, I dragged the text to the desktop to create a text clipping and then dragged that to my email message. Voila! Clean, plain text.
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bug ! bug ! bug !
Authored by: lagroue on Nov 14, '03 11:38:09AM

Wow ! This is just a plain bug ! (already sent to Apple)

This is typically the kind of silly tip & trick which makes me feel disgusted when I use Windows.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the hint.



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bug ! bug ! bug !
Authored by: scamper on Nov 14, '03 04:50:06PM

I too noticed that text clippings in Panther no longer retain styled text, and it's most definitely a bug.



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Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings... or...
Authored by: webBarista on Nov 14, '03 12:36:31PM

It seems that Edit - "Past With Current Style" in Panther Mail will also strip out the unwanted formating from copied text.

And save a couple steps too.

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Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
Authored by: snebold on Nov 14, '03 12:44:56PM

Hmmm. I can't drag text from Safari. My cursor continues to be that i-beam thing even after selecting some text. Is there some keyboard combination that I need to use?



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Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
Authored by: webBarista on Nov 14, '03 01:11:34PM

Select your text then within that selection click, pause for about 1 second and drag to the desktop.

The pause takes a bit of getting used to for the fast clickers out there.

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Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
Authored by: Eravau on Nov 14, '03 05:01:09PM
Thank you. I've been frustrated since I started using Safari that I couldn't ever drag text clippings. That's most definately annoying for those of us that are impatient to move on with what we're doing...those used to selecting and then dragging (right away).

but thanks for letting me know it's possible.

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Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
Authored by: simonpie on Nov 14, '03 02:50:24PM

I would just like to add that the text clipping is a rtf text ressource.


I was not aware of that before today.



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Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
Authored by: webBarista on Nov 14, '03 07:13:32PM

Actually, it appears that if you open the text clipping file and copy the text, it's plain text. If you drag the actual text clipping file itself into a rich-text email, it will be placed as rich-text, though with less formating than coping directly into Mail.



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Use TextEdit instead
Authored by: szabesz on Nov 14, '03 05:19:15PM

I always use TextEdit to ged rid of the styles. Copy the text from the source then paste it into TextEdit, which must be in plain text mode (can be set in its prefs to use it as default) of course.
Should the clipping bug be corrected, you can always use this way instead.



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Clean up the Safari clipboard via text clippings
Authored by: adrianm on Nov 15, '03 05:35:08PM
I have 10.3.1. I tried copy/pasting from safari to mail and no problems. I tried drag/dropping in to mail and no problems.

The next is formatted the same way in mail as it was in safari, which is what you'd expect.

I don't see any junk, javascript etc.

If my email is set to be plain text, then the formatting is lost, but still no funny chars.

It just works.

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