{"id":10907,"date":"2015-03-30T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10907"},"modified":"2015-03-30T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:20:47","slug":"paste-without-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/paste-without-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Paste Without Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2015\/03\/30\/paste-without-style\/\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2015\/03\/30\/paste-without-style\/\">\n<p>I agree with Buzz Anderson: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/buzz\/status\/580608074341314560\">&ldquo;Paste-with-styling is one of the worst software inventions of all time.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Another reason for the confusion is that &ldquo;and Match Style&rdquo; really means &ldquo;Without Style&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I nearly always use &ldquo;Paste and Match Style,&rdquo; and most people should use it but probably don&rsquo;t know about it. On the other hand, I think it usually makes sense to have the standard operation preserve as much data as possible. Apple made the opposite choice with the Finder&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/finder-paste-item-exactly\/\">Paste Exactly<\/a>, although in that case you could argue that the information discarded by default is only metadata.<\/p>\n<p>Pasting with or without styles is a thorny problem because, as Hockenberry notes, one typically wants different behavior in different applications. I think the problem of matching styles is one reason why many people prefer writing in plain text editors. Everything just looks right automatically.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Hockenberry: I agree with Buzz Anderson: &ldquo;Paste-with-styling is one of the worst software inventions of all time.&rdquo; [&#8230;] Another reason for the confusion is that &ldquo;and Match Style&rdquo; really means &ldquo;Without Style&rdquo;. I nearly always use &ldquo;Paste and Match Style,&rdquo; and most people should use it but probably don&rsquo;t know about it. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[458,30,903,68],"class_list":["post-10907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-finder","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite","tag-texteditor"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10908,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907\/revisions\/10908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}