Re: copy/paste from VS looks bad

From: Rachel Suddeth (rachel_at_bldhound.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:06:30 -0500

Thanks for the explanation. That might be slightly easier than what I was
doing (copying from the code opened in another editor) and would save things
like collapsed regions at least.

Also, seems like if I could get a new reader that would give me a true
text-only interface, I wouldn't have to worry about it at all. Any
recommendations for that?

Thanks,
Rachel

"Dan" <danielbass [at] postmaster [dot] co [dot] uk> wrote in message
news:%23jAOkl0lEHA.2492@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Rachel,
>
> VS has formatting techniques for colour coding your code, indentation,
font
> size etc...
>
> So copying and pasting into another text applicaition that's not just
plain
> text will result in problems if the text formatting rules don't line up.
>
> The work around is to keep a shortcut to Notepad handy, and:
> - do a copy ( CTRL-C ) of the VS code ,
> - then go to a new instance of notepad and perform a paste ( CTRL-V ),
> - then select all the text in notepad ( CTRL-A ),
> - copy that ( CTRL-C )
> - then paste into ( CTRL-V ) your new application.
>
> This will only copy and paste the text, and not the formatting.
>
> "Rachel Suddeth" <rachel@bldhound.com> wrote in message
> news:%23FQY8b0lEHA.2820@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > This may not be the right forum, but it's a problem I chiefly come
across
> > when trying to post here.
> >
> > When I do a copy/paste from VS, the text always looks really weird (and
> > even
> > if I'm in an editor that's supposed to be doing plain text, it looks
like
> > it's in a different font -- and of course you can't change the font in a
> > plain text editor.) Then when it gets converted to actual plain text,
> > there
> > is a blank line stuck in between every line of code that I just pasted.
> >
> > Anyone know why this happens or how to get around this? (I've been
trying
> > to
> > remember to open in an ordinary editor to do copy/paste, but that's kind
> > of
> > a hassle when I usually already have the file open in VS.) Maybe there's
> > some setting in VS that could affect this? Make it only copy the text,
not
> > the goofey formatting?
> >
> > -Rachel
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