Plain Pasta is a tiny Mac app that makes "Paste and Match Style" the default copy/paste behavior.
It sits in your menu bar, and watches your clipboard for text, removes any styling from the text, and puts plaintext back on your clipboard.
I made this app because I rarely want styling to be copied to my clipboard. When I copy text, all I want is the text.
Download the most recent version of Plain Pasta from the Mac App Store.
Copy/Pasting styled text takes both the text and the styling with it
Copy/Pasting styled text with Plain Pasta enabled only pastes the text itself, no styling
PRs are more than welcome!
To get up and running, you'll need to clone this repo, and then initialize the VerifyNoBS submodule using:
git submodule update --init
Plain Pasta was inspired by another app called FormatMatch by Robert Wessels.
I've used FormatMatch for many years. I would've happily used it for many more years to come, but the app hasn't been updated for over 6 years, and Robert Wessel's website is no longer live. I've been concerned for the continued life of the app, so I finally decided to take the time to write a new version using modern technologies.
- Icon image is Noodles by Paolo Valzania from the Noun Project
- Clipboard monitoring code based on klipsustreamer by Toni Lähdekorpi