evil format and pure text

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Erase evil format from your pure text (Mac)

Ever wish to copy this damn text without these fancy formatting? Me too…

The best way for me would be to have a modifier to standard copy shortcut (CMD-C on Mac). Alt+C is used by color palette, CMD-SHIFT-C by ShiftIt to center windows on my machine. I end up with CMD+SHIFT+X, the Hell of Lazy-Shortcuts-Programmer is waiting for me…

That’s my (double) solution.

Solution 1 : Plain Clip + Automator

This way you can play on Plain Clip 2.0 preference, like removal of trailing whitespace and control characters such as non-breaking spaces (see Plain Clip developer website)

  1. Download Plain Clip
  2. Open Automator
    • Create a service that receives selected text in any application
    • Copy to clipboard
    • Run shell script “open -a /Applications/Plain\ Clip.app” (or the path where you put Plain Clip)
    • Save the “Service_Name” service. By default you’ll find it in /Users/User_Name/Library/Services/Service_Name.workflow
  3. Open Keyboard Preference Panel
    • On the left select Services
    • Select Service_Name in Text
    • Set a shortcut

Enjoy it!

Solution 2 : Only Automator, but it just erases formatting!

  1. Open Automator
    • Create a service that receives selected text in any application
    • Run shell script “cat”
    • Copy to clipboard
    • Save the “Service_Name” service. By default you’ll find it in /Users/User_Name/Library/Services/Service_Name.workflow
  2. Like point 3. before.

“This new service will appear as a shortcut in your right-click contextual menu, by itself or in a Services submenu. And in its real home is in the Application > Services menu. From ‘Services preferences’ there, you can even assign a global keyboard shortcut for it. Finally, should you want to edit it, you’ll find it saved in /Users/User_Name/Library/Services/”

Credits for this solution : http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=853638

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