[MlMt] Pasting text results in image - how to fix?
Hello, For a while now (over a year, possibly more), I've found that when I paste text into a compose window on MailMate, instead of just getting the text, it is turned into a Pasted Image (PNG, I think). This is somewhat infuriating, as I end up taking the same text from the Clipboard, pasting it into Sublime Text, select-all, copy, and THEN pasting it into MailMate. Is it just me? Is there a workaround? The source text is often from various web-apps I use for work, but, no other application besides MailMate seems to have an issue with it. I can take the same Clipboard and paste into a Terminal session, vim, any text editor, DevonThink, doesn't matter...always works. But MailMate will almost always turn pasted text into an image. I'm guessing there's extraneous information in the copied data which is making MailMate assume I'm trying to paste binary content, perhaps. Would be great if someone knows a way around this! Regards, Scott ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Pasting text results in image - how to fix?
I just tried (Mailmate 5898, Big Sur) and it works OK, I just get the text. Not very helpful, I admit. Alain On 22 Jan 2023, at 0:42, Scott wrote: Hello, For a while now (over a year, possibly more), I've found that when I paste text into a compose window on MailMate, instead of just getting the text, it is turned into a Pasted Image (PNG, I think). This is somewhat infuriating, as I end up taking the same text from the Clipboard, pasting it into Sublime Text, select-all, copy, and THEN pasting it into MailMate. Is it just me? Is there a workaround? The source text is often from various web-apps I use for work, but, no other application besides MailMate seems to have an issue with it. I can take the same Clipboard and paste into a Terminal session, vim, any text editor, DevonThink, doesn't matter...always works. But MailMate will almost always turn pasted text into an image. I'm guessing there's extraneous information in the copied data which is making MailMate assume I'm trying to paste binary content, perhaps. Would be great if someone knows a way around this! Regards, Scott ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate__;!!JFdNOqOXpB6UZW0!pFSFgxwR-8z4t2xum4_wWZFfM3o3NTAA0hZhba5kiptXSjIcVxkr6IX_-krTCaPEhEMPrwCUhsnNvCF5yhYuqQ$___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Pasting text results in image - how to fix?
I agree, this is frustrating. I do the same -- cmd-tab into BBEdit then cmd-N, cmd-A, cmd-C, cmd-W, click "delete", cmd-tab to MailMate, cmd-P. --Randall On 21 Jan 2023, at 15:42, Scott wrote: Hello, For a while now (over a year, possibly more), I've found that when I paste text into a compose window on MailMate, instead of just getting the text, it is turned into a Pasted Image (PNG, I think). This is somewhat infuriating, as I end up taking the same text from the Clipboard, pasting it into Sublime Text, select-all, copy, and THEN pasting it into MailMate. Is it just me? Is there a workaround? The source text is often from various web-apps I use for work, but, no other application besides MailMate seems to have an issue with it. I can take the same Clipboard and paste into a Terminal session, vim, any text editor, DevonThink, doesn't matter...always works. But MailMate will almost always turn pasted text into an image. I'm guessing there's extraneous information in the copied data which is making MailMate assume I'm trying to paste binary content, perhaps. Would be great if someone knows a way around this! Regards, Scott ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Pasting text results in image - how to fix?
Scott 2023-01-22 0:42 wrote: > For a while now (over a year, possibly more), I've found that when I paste > text into a compose window on MailMate, instead of just getting the text, it > is turned into a Pasted Image (PNG, I think). I have experienced this as well. Anything that is not pure plain text will result in an attached image. A workaround is to use the command "Paste as Plain Text" in the Edit menu. Hold down Shift + Option to see it. Keyboard shortcut: Shift + Option + Command + V You can remap this to plain Command + V with Apples Keyboard system settings. Fredrik ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Pasting text results in image - how to fix?
On 22 Jan 2023, at 0:42, Scott wrote: > But MailMate will almost always turn pasted text into an image. It'll only happen if the application putting it on the pasteboard added an image as well as text. I don't really know why any app would do that if it's really only text. (MailMate does not have any text to image conversion.) That said, I recall changing something related to Office apps (at least Excel and Word), but I'm not sure it works in other cases. Please try and see if the latest beta behaves differently (r5937). If not, I'll revisit the issue (right now, I've forgotten the details :) ). > I'm guessing there's extraneous information in the copied data which is > making MailMate assume I'm trying to paste binary content, perhaps. From the perspective of MailMate, you really are pasting binary data (an image). -- Benny https://freron.com/become_a_mailmate_patron/ ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Pasting text results in image - how to fix?
On 26 Jan 2023, at 12:23, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 22 Jan 2023, at 0:42, Scott wrote: It'll only happen if the application putting it on the pasteboard added an image as well as text. I don't really know why any app would do that if it's really only text. (MailMate does not have any text to image conversion.) That said, I recall changing something related to Office apps (at least Excel and Word), but I'm not sure it works in other cases. Please try and see if the latest beta behaves differently (r5937). If not, I'll revisit the issue (right now, I've forgotten the details :) ). Excel works indeed and you get a nice Markdown table. Pasting from Numbers (= Excel made by Apple) results in an image indeed. ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Pasting text results in image - how to fix?
On 26 Jan 2023, at 11:18, Giovanni Lanzani wrote: > On 26 Jan 2023, at 12:23, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: > >> On 22 Jan 2023, at 0:42, Scott wrote: >> >> >> It'll only happen if the application putting it on the pasteboard added an >> image as well as text. I don't really know why any app would do that if it's >> really only text. (MailMate does not have any text to image conversion.) >> >> That said, I recall changing something related to Office apps (at least >> Excel and Word), but I'm not sure it works in other cases. Please try and >> see if the latest beta behaves differently (r5937). If not, I'll revisit the >> issue (right now, I've forgotten the details :) ). >> > > Excel works indeed and you get a nice Markdown table. Pasting from Numbers (= > Excel made by Apple) results in an image indeed. Data copied from Word is structured and not just simple text. Many years ago, before I switched to MailMate, I did a copy-and-paste from Word into an Apple Mail message. To my surprise, it did the right thing with footnotes—it changed, say, a superscript 3 into a [3] in the message, and included the text of the footnote at the end of the pasted insert. Very convenient—but also messy for some programs. --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Pasting text results in image - how to fix?
On 26 Jan 2023, at 8:18, Giovanni Lanzani wrote: On 26 Jan 2023, at 12:23, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 22 Jan 2023, at 0:42, Scott wrote: It'll only happen if the application putting it on the pasteboard added an image as well as text. I don't really know why any app would do that if it's really only text. (MailMate does not have any text to image conversion.) That said, I recall changing something related to Office apps (at least Excel and Word), but I'm not sure it works in other cases. Please try and see if the latest beta behaves differently (r5937). If not, I'll revisit the issue (right now, I've forgotten the details :) ). Excel works indeed and you get a nice Markdown table. Pasting from Numbers (= Excel made by Apple) results in an image indeed. I run into this most often when pasting from Numbers. In my cases, I'm most often just copying one or two cells and wanting to paste them as plain text, so ending up as a markdown table would be extra work, but I can see that as being what's most often desired by users in general. --Randall ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
