Currently, when copy-and-pasting text from an external source to BSS fields like paragraph or headline, the default is to include rich text formats (RTF) like background color or font size.
In my opinion, including RTF in BSS fields is redundant because we have CSS to style text. Also, it can be counterproductive if we inadvertently paste RTF without realizing and we’re trying to troubleshoot why CSS isn’t working; I believe RTF overrides CSS.
I know there’s an option to ctrl-alt-v to paste as plain text. I did an informal survey and it seems people prefer the default paste action to be plain text.
Would the devs consider making the default paste action of text to be plain text and use ctrl-alt-v in cases where a user wants RTF?
When copying or cutting text within Bootstrap Studio itself it is convenient to have rich text be the default paste mode. Many people will cut and paste text within the paragraph while rewriting. This is second nature and you might not even realize you are doing it. If this were to default to plain text it would be very annoying to lose your formatting every time.
Rich text paste is the default in most text editing programs. Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+V is a relatively popular shortcut across apps to paste as plain text. Many power users would be familiar with it from one app or another.
In other words, I think that for a general audience defaulting to rich text pasting is convenient. In the cases where this breaks down (like pasting the messy HTML that word and other editors generate as an example) the specialized pasting shortcuts come into play.
Could it be made a setting to choose the default in the app?
I think the default behaviour catches a few new users out at first. Pasting plain text via the shortcut isn’t super well known in my experience supporting end users in my job in IT.
Yes, that’s already been mentioned. We’re suggesting that plain text should be the default or be a setting to change the default.
Weirdly, Control+Shift+V works in all the Office apps except Outlook. It was a daily frustration of mine at work till I installed Windows Powertoys which adds the functionality to every single application on your computer.
Ah OP mentioned that -
I can’t think of a scenario where I’d prefer that default behaviour to change,
Maybe I don’t get the real problem.
But I highly advise not to change that. I can’t stress how often especially long texts with formating for legal pages have to be copy/pasted and you will want to keep the formatting.
In my opinion a button to “clean” selected text of any makrup inside the editor would be a far better feature. - Because you could get rid of your own newly/accidentally made additions.
If possible this should be a setting - that does not change the default behaviour.
Last but not least. - I’m wondering wether you can add a Chrome Plugin to Bootstrap studio - there are plenty that deal with formatting, as well as case changer and so on.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting that we should get rid of rich-text formatting. Rather that the default paste setting (ctrl-v) should paste unformatted text, and a different key combo could be used to paste text with formatting preserved.
I am sorry to disappoint, but we don’t plan to implement this.
Switching to plain text paste means that we need to dedicate a shortcut to rich text pasting that is available only to those who have switched. This is another thing to test and potentially break if we rewrite pasting in the future. Not to mention confused support emails by users who have enabled it without knowing what it does and needing help. In other words adding the setting is easy, the hard part is maintaining it in perpetuity and dealing with user confusion.
I understand if you guys don’t want to add complexity to BSS, especially if it means re-educating users regarding long-standing, industry defaults.
Instead, would you consider adding a configuration option in the settings? The default option would be how BSS currently operates. For users who prefer plain-text pasting, they can manually enable it by going into the settings.
