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Okay... I highlight a block of text in Firefox, right-click, Copy. I open up Semagic, my LJ client, and do three different things to paste that text.
1. Ctrl+C. Pastes <a href="http://....">{page title}</a>.
2. Edit->Paste Special...->Text. Pastes the text, just as I'd wanted.
3. Edit->Paste Special...->HTML. Pastes the HTML code for the block I copied.
This is quite cute - Firefox not just shunting the text into the clipboard like IE does, but the HTML and presumably page info such as the URL as well. All well and good for pasting into apps that only expect text to be pasted, such as TextPad. But I've set Semagic up to automatically put the <a> tags round a URL when it comes in, so clearly whatever Firefox dumps into the clipboard is confusing the poor thing. Nice feature. Now, to go about switching it off....
1. Ctrl+C. Pastes <a href="http://....">{page title}</a>.
2. Edit->Paste Special...->Text. Pastes the text, just as I'd wanted.
3. Edit->Paste Special...->HTML. Pastes the HTML code for the block I copied.
This is quite cute - Firefox not just shunting the text into the clipboard like IE does, but the HTML and presumably page info such as the URL as well. All well and good for pasting into apps that only expect text to be pasted, such as TextPad. But I've set Semagic up to automatically put the <a> tags round a URL when it comes in, so clearly whatever Firefox dumps into the clipboard is confusing the poor thing. Nice feature. Now, to go about switching it off....
