---- Reported by geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-07-09 17:42:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 5525
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5525
Searchable id: yorba-bug-5525
Original author: Matthew Pirocchi
Original description:

It's common practice to use the following shortcuts:

  * `Ctrl + V`: Paste (with formatting)
  * `Ctrl + Shift + V`: Paste without formatting

Chrome and Firefox, to name a few, use these shortcuts.

However, Geary uses the following shortcuts:

  * `Ctrl + V`: Paste without formatting
  * `Ctrl + Shift + V`: Paste with formatting

This is inconsistent with what most users will expect, and should be reversed.



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-05-01 11:50:00 -0700 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Eric Gregory over 1 year ago

  * **Status** changed from _Open_ to _5_
  * **Resolution** set to _wontfix_

This was by design; this is a rare instance where we think many other apps*
get it wrong and decided to go our own way.

The problem with ctrl-V for paste with formatting is that most of the it's a
violation of expectation. When you paste text from a web page, for example,
how often do you want the formatting to go along with it? For those of us we
polled at Yorba, the answer was "never."

Since the primary use case is to paste without formatting, we felt it should
be the default. An extra key press is necessary for the less common use-case
of pasting formatting with the text.

(*Apple was nice enough to make this configurable systemwide on OS X.)

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#2

Updated by Matthew Pirocchi over 1 year ago

While I also almost never want to paste with formatting, I'm not convinced
that breaking established convention is worth it in this case. But if the
issue was already discussed and decided, that's ok.

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#3

Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago

Yep - this was a conscious design decision. We'll keep this as it is.

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#4

Updated by Charles Lindsay 7 months ago

  * **Status** changed from _5_ to _Invalid_



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:17 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5525 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5525

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