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VisualEditor: Make it easier to see that there is an option to paste as plain text
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This suggestion comes from Gebruiker:Stratoprutser at nl.wp.


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 4:00 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz71612.

This is already available via the standard shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+V), and it's listed in the dialog of all keyboard shortcuts.

Is this asking for a button to do this as well?

m8r-0p6s0d wrote:

Ah! In Firefox ctrl shift v opens Ad blocks' blockable items dialog, but disabling adblocker indeed pastes unformated.

Not sure if it needs a button or an entry under "Insert", but its always nice to have such a hidden feature somewhere exposed?

(In reply to Stratoprutser from comment #2)

Ah! In Firefox ctrl shift v opens Ad blocks' blockable items dialog, but
disabling adblocker indeed pastes unformated.

Not sure if it needs a button or an entry under "Insert", but its always
nice to have such a hidden feature somewhere exposed?

If you click on the help icon, then "keyboard shortcuts" ("Tastaturkürzel" in German), it is listed there along with the other standard shortcut commands. Unfortunately browsers will not let us provide cut/copy/paste buttons, so although we could add a "paste unformatted" button it would feel very odd…

m8r-0p6s0d wrote:

ok my bad, thanks for the follow-up, closing

(In reply to Stratoprutser from comment #4)

ok my bad, thanks for the follow-up, closing

If you couldn't find it then probably others couldn't either; we should keep this open until we come up with a good way to expose this.

…so although we could add a "paste unformatted" button it would feel very odd…

Where do you think this would make sense? Within the Insert menu? One option could be to add it in the right click context menu, but I am sure hijacking that will come with problems of its own.

If you couldn't find it then probably others couldn't either; we should keep this open until we come up with a good way to expose this.

Has this come up as a problem again?

Deskana lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Lowest.Sep 11 2017, 11:51 AM
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Has this come up as a problem again?

There was some confusion about a similar problem (see T174898), but this specific problem hasn't come up. I'm changing priority to reflect the state of things here.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:14 AM
Aklapper removed subscribers: rmoen, TrevorParscal.