I'd like a way to copy text straight from a webpage (or from editor) into a word processor without carrying over formatting. Currently I open a notepad window, paste into the notepad window, copy from the notepad window, paste into the other app, and end up with a blank notepad window to close later. This gets tedious rather quickly. (Note: some of the time I do the notepad thing, I'm copying directly to a program that accepts only plain text anyway, but the app I'm pasting into also happens to have a command-line interface and I'm paranoid about bug 57770.) How about adding a command to the Edit menu called "copy text" with the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+C that copies only the plain-text version of the selected text to the clipboard? "Cut text" and "paste text" might also be useful, but having both "copy text" and "paste text" on the menu might make it unclear that using just one of those new shortcuts is sufficient to force a plain-text copy. Gregory <gregoryNOSPAMy@mac.com> brought this up in n.p.m.wishlist.

See also bug 64647, where PLairo suggested adding a "paste without formatting" option. I like that wording better than my "paste text" (although it is slightly long).

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really

Should this really be keyboard navigation? I'm also proposing adding an item to the edit menu, and possibly to the context menus for selections and textboxes.

if it's really an selection or editor issue, it should then go into either the Selection or Editor component.

-> selection

This actually goes well with another bug in Composer (Paste As > xxx [dropdown list]). Strictly speaking, I don't think this bug is a duplicate of #64647 since that complaint is focused on a specific problem in mail compose (not wanting a specific format (<pre>) on paste). This bug seems to be a general issue of not putting any formatting on the clipboard.

In Microsoft Word: Edit->Paste Special->Unformatted text already does what you want. I don't see the use for this feature. In general, Mozilla provides the clipboard comments as both HTML and unformatted text at the same time. Adding a seperate "Copy as text" feature seems useless.

Marking wontfix based on Brian's comment that "paste without formatting" is available in most apps that can take both text and formatted text, making "copy without formatting" redundant.