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Can we please get an option to paste plain text without formatting in the agenda ?

Werdordla

Hello,

I'm very fond of Thunderbird (using it only for agenda, but a lot) and I think that a new practical function would be to be able to paste plain text (= without formatting) with the right click of the mouse into an agenda cell.

As I add a lot of events and text into the agenda cells directly from websites or documents, I'm always getting the original formatting that I don't need and can look quite bizarre.

Plain text could harmonize everything. I know I could select the text and reformat it in Thunderbird but it's adding unnecessary steps.

Thanks in advance for the consideration of my proposal, thank you developers, and have a good day !

Hello, I'm very fond of Thunderbird (using it only for agenda, but a lot) and I think that a new practical function would be to be able to paste plain text (= without formatting) with the right click of the mouse into an agenda cell. As I add a lot of events and text into the agenda cells directly from websites or documents, I'm always getting the original formatting that I don't need and can look quite bizarre. Plain text could harmonize everything. I know I could select the text and reformat it in Thunderbird but it's adding unnecessary steps. Thanks in advance for the consideration of my proposal, thank you developers, and have a good day !

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Suggestions should go to https://connect.mozilla.org/ and post in the IDEAS section. Thank you for your interest.

Hello David,

Thank you for your reply. I went there and... I need to create yet another account. And I didn't feel like creating my millionth Internet account especially for another Mozilla help/suport website when I'm registered here already. So I won't do it :-)

If anyone reading my proposal thinks it's a good one, please post it there if you want, thanks!

Werdordla said

Hello David, Thank you for your reply. I went there and... I need to create yet another account.

That site and this uses the same Firefox account. So I have no idea why you would need to create an account, just sign in with the same credentials you use to access this website.

And I didn't feel like creating my millionth Internet account especially for another Mozilla help/suport website when I'm registered here already. So I won't do it :-)

Posting requests for change in the peer support forum is technically off topic and is not allowed in support. That is why there is a request forum which is linked to from the Thunderbird help menu, just as this site is. </blockquote> If anyone reading my proposal thinks it's a good one, please post it there if you want, thanks! </blockquote>

Why post a request for that which already exists? Or do I simply not understand what an agenda is? I do not know.

See this 25 year old implementation bug for paste without formatting https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64647 and this 23 year old on that implemented the keyboard shortcut I refer to later. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192330

Paste without formatting has been a feature of Thunderbird for a very long time. It is available on the right click menu in the message body when you are composing a new message and is also available as the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+V the shortcut for normal paste being Ctrl+V and paste as a quotation being Ctrl_Shift+O

Thew shortcuts are shown on the menu bar.

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