@viet @oldbonsai Several months ago, the ability to paste formatted text was added to the forums. I personally have found this to make the experience worse, but apparently there is a way to turn it off site wide. In particular, I often incidentally copy linked text, header text, etc. and when I try to paste it, it adds all this formatting I don’t want. I wanted to run through a few examples and put up a poll to see what others think.
Take the WaniKani Wikipedia page for example.
If you go there and copy the header, you get this:
WaniKani
instead of this:
WaniKani
Similarly if you copy the first word (“WaniKani”) of the paragraph (which is bold), you get this:
WaniKani
instead of this:
WaniKani
Let’s say you copy the second sentence, which contains links. You get this:
It uses radicals, mnemonics, and a spaced repetition learning system in order to help its users memorize the characters and vocabulary more effectively.[2]
instead of this:
It uses radicals, mnemonics, and a spaced repetition learning system in order to help its users memorize the characters and vocabulary more effectively.[2]
Now let’s take a case within the forums. If you copy text from a post, you will also copy the formatting. For example, I can copy the bold text from this post’s preview itself, and get this:
WaniKani
instead of this:
WaniKani
However, here’s one particularly unfortunate case. Let’s say I want to demonstrate to someone how to use ruby
tags to add furigana. I would put some block text for them to copy:
<ruby>漢<rt>かん</rt></ruby><ruby>字<rt>じ</rt></ruby>
However, pasting formatted text means you get this (because it escapes the HTML tags):
<ruby>漢<rt>かん</rt></ruby><ruby>字<rt>じ</rt></ruby>
instead of this:
漢字
Now, you can get around all this issues by pasting as plain text instead of doing a regular paste. But I think most people don’t know about this, and most people probably just use ctrl+v instead of ctrl+shift+v.
So with all that in mind, the question is: does formatted paste do more good or harm? Let’s have a poll to find out.
- We should keep formatted paste because I like it.
- We should turn off formatted paste, because I dislike it.
- We should keep formatted paste because there’s a workaround (paste as plain text)
- I don’t care one way or the other
- Other (please explain)
0 voters