Copy+Paste Plain Text

[cawoodm]

When pasting CSV text from VS Code to, say, Excel it pastes as HTML i.e. colored text with a specific font.
This is undesirable behaviour in most cases - we want code highlighting but not the pasting of code colors to other windows.

[mechatroner]

I think most operating systems should allow to paste without color/formating e.g. Ctrl + Shift + V in windows (instead of Ctrl + V) or Cmd + Shift + V in Mac OS.
Please let me know if this helps.

[masebu]

Hi,

It may also depend on the target software.

ex. on windows 10/11, Ctrl+Shift+V does indeed remove formatting when pasting in Excel (as required above) or a rich text edit box on a website.
MS Word ignores Ctrl+Shift+V; a regular paste is required, then choose paste option "keep text only".

Regards

[mechatroner]

Thank you for the correction, @masebu, you are right, it depends on the destination software.
I also investigated it a little bit more, and it turns out this apparently can also be configured at the source, in VSCode specifically whether to copy formatting or plain text only is governed by the editor.copyWithSyntaxHighlighting setting: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44461520/how-to-turn-off-copy-with-syntax-highlighting. So I might be able to do something on the extension side, at least I can add a doc entry on how to adjust this behavior.

[mechatroner]

It is also possible to disable editor.copyWithSyntaxHighlighting for all csv files by default at the extension level, but I am not sure if this is the right thing to do, since it would be inconsistent with the other filetypes.

[ksvnar]

Очень хорошо спасибо вам