Force Plaintext if Prototype of note is Markdown?

Q & A - getting started with Tinderbox
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Is it possible to force the editor to function in a plaintext mode, where maybe a fixed width type face is used and all styles are ignored when copy/paste occurs?

I find myself reformatting notes to standardize size, color, typeface regularly if I am pulling an action item from an email for example.

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When pasting, use Paste And Match Style.

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Yeah, that is what I am doing now, will commit to muscle memory; just was curious if there was something on the horizon that would disable the “rich text” editor when using Markdown prototype for example.

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I very much doubt this.

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Can’t test right now, however something @eastgate mentioned some time ago in another thread might work. Try to use this code

in the note’s $Edict.

(If it doesn’t work we could try to add a short delay at the beginning of the Edict, I think).

When you’re done with adding new text you could remove or disable the Edict.

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FWIW, action code doesn’t have a ‘wait’ mechanism† (though AppleScript does).

I tested:

$MyString=$Text; $Text=$MyString;

And it works. Result is no styling but $Text font and size are as per document defaults.

Here is my test doc: plaintext.tbx (136.4 KB)

The TBX has one stamp applied to 2 copies of the ‘test text’ note that contains styled text. The test using a prototype is for if you want $Text with a monospace font with no smart quotes.

†. Normally, we’re trying to make things go faster. :slight_smile:

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Yes, I had runCommand in mind.

Yep, just tested too. Quite nice.

@devnull if you don’t want to be precise when copying you could add this at the beginning of the Edict:

$Text=$Text.replace("\n+$","");
$Text=$Text+"\n\n";

This way you don’t have to take care of exact copying or adding linebreaks afterwards and always get exactly two linebreks between each pasted part.

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Thanks for the help all, this is a great workaround!

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