Questions tagged [plaintext]
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Copy and paste plain text only in macOS?
My problem: I copy something from a webpage or Illustrator, then paste it into an email or another Illustrator document and the styles are carried over from the original doc when I just want the text to conform to the format of the new document.
Is…
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How to draw boxes and tables in plain text
In many plain text documents, box drawing characters are used to draw these boxes in figures and tables. Such examples (from RFC 5766) are shown below. Is there a better way to draw this (for instance, a Unix command line tool), other than using the…
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Character count for SublimeText/WordCount
I'm new to Sublime Text (using ST3) and I've managed to install the SublimeText/WordCount package via Package Control.
https://github.com/SublimeText/WordCount/blob/st3/readme.md lists enable_count_chars as a preference that I can set to 'true'.…
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Configure Thunderbird to never send (or even try to send) HTML emails
Where can I tell Thunderbird always to send emails as plain-text, and never as HTML-formatted messages? I hate HTML-based email, and always do everything possible to send my emails as plain text.
Thunderbird is always pestering me with questions…
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How can I justify plain text in Linux?
I'm composing a plain text (.txt) document that has left-and-right justified paragraphs. I manually add spaces, breaking words with hyphens if necessary, until the lines are uniform length. To use an example from my document, a paragraph like…
Exp HP
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How should I format plain-text emails to make everyone happy?
I prefer reading and writing emails in plain text. My emails are presented and composed in 80-character fixed-width-font windows, and I love text messages that are properly quoted (with “>”) and marked up with ASCII. Like in the olden…
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How do I open a file in binary/plaintext format on Mac OS X?
This is the thing bugging me. I'd like to see some of my files in binary or plaintext format, but I can't figure out how to do it for all files. I can open some image files in plaintext using Textedit, but that's all I can figure out. Anyone know…
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bulleted lists for plain-text documents in Vim
While Vim supports automatic indenting in lists, the default setting only covers ordered lists, starting with digits, such as:
1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna…
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Show text-only view of incoming email?
I'm being sent an email which offers alternate views: plain text and HTML. The two views have slightly different content. I want to read the plain text view, not any rendering of the HTML view.
When I select 'read all messages as plain text' in the…
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A desktop Wiki editor/viewer: is there anything out there?
I'm a big user of wikis, mainly Dokuwiki, I really like the clarity and ease of use of simple text files. However all good wikis seem to require a web-server of some kind; has anyone come across a good desktop wiki editor/viewer that work with…
MrBertie
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Quoting original message after conversion from HTML to plain text in Outlook
When replying to an HTML-formatted message in Outlook, sometimes, I would like to be able to reply in plain text.
Were the original message in plain text, replying to it would quote the original message with “>”, which is the setting I use (and…
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How can I format documents that are not saved in visual studio code?
If i Shift + Alt + F (or use the command from the palette) on a Untitled tab on vscode the following command appear:
There is no formatter for 'plaintext' files installed.
Is there any way to specify a different format for the unsaved file to…
Giulio Caccin
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Microsoft Teams copy/paste exact highlighted text? Do not include message metadata
Microsoft Teams injects a bunch of annoying text when you try to copy/paste a highlighted message.
as you can see, I've highlighted the message text. I then copy/paste using the standard Mac keyboard shortcuts.
Pasting results in the text:
[1:41…
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Thunderbird: export a mailing list thread to HTML or plain text
Howto export a mailing list thread to HTML or plain text. Thread have 40+ mails. I use OS X if that matters.
export should be well formatted and readable
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Copy selected text with links appended in plain text?
Is there a way for a link to be copied with the selected text?
"Some selected text with this link somewhere in the paragraph"
To be copied as:
"Some selected text with this { link | http://example.com } somewhere in the paragraph"
If there is…
Matthew Sprankle
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