I just paste and then copy whatever i need into the address bar of any browser and its good to go. Unless its very long.
Nailed it, this is the only reason I’ve used notepad for years. Speaking of which, now that I’m permanently on Linux I should lfind a command line way to do this - there has to be one, if not many.
Just slap it in Geany.
You don’t need Linux or any command line tools to do this, there’s lots of apps that can strip formatting from the clipboard content, heck Windows Power Toys also comes with this feature built in, it’s just a simple keyboard shortcut
I mainly use the Blue Velvet editor (works also in mobile). There you can save locally in plain text (without any format), PDF or in htm. (Rich text or code). Works right in the browser.
Does anyone else use the .LOG feature?
Put .LOG at the beginning of a text file. When opened in Notepad, you should get a date & time stamp.
Open filename.txt, type something, save and close.
Now you have a journal for system and config changes, document collections, time entries, client visits, whatever. Has worked on every Windows box I ever had to use.
Windows Power Toy run provides multiple date and time generation capability in built
Ctrl shift v
Wait…what…??? I thought it’s only me who use notepad to remove text formatting
Yes but you woukd not need to if you just installed Ditto clipboard manager Just press shift-enter in ditto to paste in plain text anywhere
Learn to use this and it will change your life I SWEAR
https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
The shortcut is CTRL+~
Great suggestion but incompatible with windows available in corpo.
Try Windows Power Toys then, it’s a official Microsoft tool with this and many more features
Is it installed by défaut on windows ? Will try to look at work today
No it’s not installed by default, but you can install it from the Microsoft app store
ARF, we don’t have the mocrosfot store but a custom one with curated apps. (There is like 50 apps in it and nearly all of them are business related)
If you can install any apps directly then you can get the installer for this from it’s Github repository, but judging by how locked down your system is, maybe just make a request to IT for it instead, it’s an open source utility app made by Microsoft themselves, so shouldn’t be an issue.
Works in portable just great here in corpo land
Thanks but this won’t pass the firewall. If it is not already installed or in the “application store” we can’t download it. Even PDF files are scanned and sometime restricted.
You can email inside a password protected zip file renamed to myfile.mp4 or ideally some obscure file format it won’t know.
Other than that, you could ask supervisor but I’ve dealt with business dweebs enough not to bother asking. I’d just bring some old laptop with smb filesharing plus a dhcp server running from the ethernet port and hook that ditectly into the work pc then copy the file.
Me I just clone tge corpoOS image, install promox then run shitty corpoOS in a VM and do my actual work on a VM without the bullshit.
If anyone asks anything, I’ll tell them about my extensive gun collection.
This don’t work anymore they scan the the file header and if they found a zip it is blocked.
If you remove the file header it is rejected because no file header,
if you switch a file header like jpg they remove the picture from the email and you have a web side to see it.
The picture seem transformed too, you can’t get it change the header and unzip.
We can’t even send a picture in a email to outside emails adresse.
Ho violence and threat… Yeah this is know yo solve computers issues
Ha! Welcome to the club, normie! :-)
Don’t shame notepad! Just the other day I had to alter a host file so a computer could talk to a server! That’s a very important thing and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without trusty notepad!
If you also want to remove line breaks, paste it into a url bar
I recently had to remove line breaks from the public key in a key pair, why did I never think of doing this
I actually unironically use notepad when I need to write something down because of how quickly it opens up
I keep a notepad document of my desktop for making temporary notes on.
This is a good one. 😂
Ctrl + Shift + V pastes without formatting on Windows
Ctrl + Shift + V should paste without formatting, but for some reason Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Publisher) refuses to follow this standard.
Sadly, doesn’t work everywhere. Sometimes, this is still necessary.
Funny enough, I’ve found Microsoft apps are the most inconsistent with this functionality
Yeah this doesn’t work anywhere in Office apps
Never in my entire life have I wanted to paste with formatting into a word doc, and you always have to click the stupid little clipboard icon after you paste to undo it.
Ctrl + Alt + V
Yes and after learning of the shortcut, it actually makes me angrier when I get formatted text.
Ctrl + Win + Alt + V works everywhere I’ve tried it.
Is there something like this for Mac users that have this stupid behavior ported over through the MS Office suite?
CMD + Shift + V
I don’t think it’s OS dependent.
Linux too, at least in most applications I’ve tried. Some will ask you when you ctrl+shift+v if you want to paste formatted or unformatted text.
I’ve been on Windows since 3.0 and only recently learned that. Use it almost every day now.
Same, I’ve been using PCs with Microsoft operating systems since fuckin’ MS-DOS 3.2 and I only learned about it a couple years ago.
Can anyone confirm if that keeps Jira from doing that “uploading an image” thing when pasting text?
As a Mac user, in an LLM world, text editors are King.
I couldn’t do my job anymore without them.
I maintain a small business website with notepad. HTML in the raw.
“Ah, you think IDEs are your ally. But you merely adopted the lDE. I was born in Notepad, molded by it. I didn’t see syntax highlighting until I was already a man. By then, it was nothing to me but blinding!”
Someone asked me what IDE I use for python and I’m so dumb I didn’t even know what they meant. I just said whatever the fedora gnome text editor app is… who needs IDEs!
Real OG’s let their brains do the highlighting, like God intended
You’d typically want Kate rather than KWrite, if you’re gonna do development. Basically the same editor, but with more power-user features.
There are plenty of consenting adults who would be happy to punch you in the genitals, why not just do that instead?
Oh god, I remember the days of creating webpages by hand-editing HTML in notepad. And not fondly.
I enjoyed it :(
I mean I’m not here to shit on anybody else’s good time, I just hated it myself.
Not in the new one. It had one job and it does it badly now.
It’s that the one that wants me to use it’s AI editor?
The new notepad is rage inducing
Get off notepad nightlies.
My brother in Christ, let me introduce you to ctrl+shift+v
