“Formatted paste� feature

[james.cole]

“Formatted paste� feature for preserving bold, italics and underlining formatting in text pasted into a plain text document, using the plain-text formatting conventions *bold*, /italics/ and _underlining_

I have a suggestion for a “Formatted paste� feature. Say you’ve copied some text from something like a Word document or a PDF document that contained bold, italics or underlining formatting. With normal paste, that formatting is lost.

The “Formatted paste� feature would preserve it, using the common plain text conventions for representing such formatting: asterisks for bold text (like this: *bold text*), forwards slashes for italics (like this: /italicized text/) and underscores for underlining (like this: _underlined text_).

For example, the “Formatted paste� would automatically put underscores around bits of text that were originally underlined.