Make paste as plain text default?

[JohnAtl]

Is it possible to have Ctrl+V paste as plain text, rather than requiring Ctrl+Shift+V?
I usually forget and have to undo, then paste again.

Thanks

[rigmarole]

There isn’t a way currently.

It might make a good feature request, to include this as an editor settings toggle.

Or a feature request to expose “Paste without formatting” as a custom command, so it can be mapped to a different hotkey.

Or perhaps Plugins ideas

[avraam]

+1 i need it too

[AlanG]

@JohnAtl @avraam just put this in a template and bind it to Ctrl+V:

<% navigator.clipboard.readText() %>

Boom - always plain text paste.

[avraam]

@AlanG Please tell me what exactly is “template”? And how to insert something in it?

[AlanG]

Templater plugin:

Plugins - Obsidian

[avraam]

@AlanG I made such a template, added text to it

I connected the plugin that you didn’t specify above, but i messed with Google - Hotkeys for templates and assigned the ctrl+v combination

Now exactly this text <% navigator.clipboard.readText() %> is simplify inserted on ctrl+v

Where did I do something wrong?
P.S.: Could you write STEP by STEP every action necessary for your plan to work, please?

[AlanG]

I can see from your screenshot you’re using the core Template plugin, not Templater. This is the setting for “Template”, not for “Templater”:

@avraam

Could you write STEP by STEP

Check the Templater documentation and also there’s plenty of great Youtube videos on how to set up Templater.

[avraam]

@AlanG Yes, I’ve sorted out templater. I thought we were talking about another bundle, the plugins are too similar, I was guided by this message: How to add multi line breaks in preview mode - #13 by chrsle

Okay, we figured it out, now ctrl+v inserts text! Cool! Thanks!

Now you need to change the behavior of ctrl+shift+v so that the object is inserted (picture, links, etc.)

How to do it? Any thoughts? I googled it, just clipboard.read() - doesn’t work

[AlanG]

@avraam I’m glad you figured it out

Unless Obsidian adds a command for the normal paste, there’s probably no easy way to map it to Ctrl+Shift+V.

The next best option would be to simply right-click and choose “Paste”:

[labyrinthhoggle]

I absolutely despise fancy paste as default in any application. This shouldn’t need a plugin to customize. I like the moderators idea above for it to be in the settings. Please make add this to the feature requests if it isn’t already there.

[hellomynameis]

Similar to the above comment, I hate fancy paste as a default. I’ve found this so annoying that I’ve gone back to using a basic text editor over Obsidian. It’s hard to take notes, and I don’t want to create a template or constantly paste as plain text.

[henrikn]

Normally you can switch these around via the Keyboard Shortcuts settings in macOS, but I just tried it, and it behaves weirdly in Obsidian. (UPDATE: Due to the “Auto Link Title” plugin. See below.)

I’ve changed the settings:

The menu shows them switched around:

But if I press shift+cmd+V in an Obsidian document, it does not paste formatted text as expected.

If I click the “Edit” menu to open it and then press shift+cmd+V, it does paste formatted text.

Presumably a bug. Could be good to know this works to switch them around in other apps, though. And if you only care about getting cmd+v for “Paste and Match Style” and don’t care about being able trigger regular formatted “Paste” with a shortcut, you’re fine.

UPDATE: It works as expected in a new empty vault. I’ve tracked the issue down to the “Auto Link Title” plugin (v. 1.5.0). Reported. So if you don’t have that, you probably won’t see this quirk.

[JohnAtl]

I’m back to Obsidian, lol
Thanks for this!