For me, smart copy/paste from Safari to Mail would be that when I copy text in Safari (e.g. this comment) and paste it into a plain text message in Mail, that I don't get plain text with just one bit of formatting, 2.0 line spacing, that I cannot remove, not matter how hard I try.

It does the same thing when I reply to some HTML messages, it drives me crazy. And it's even worse, because if I make a trip through BBEdit or a clipboard unformatter, then I lose the quote bars in the process.

If anybody has a solution to this, I would be very grateful.

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This usually works: while viewing the original message, hit Command-Option-P to view the plain text alternative. Replying after that should strip the extra carriage returns and other unwanted formatting, while leaving the quote bars.

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One possible solution: JumpCut.

This is a multiple clipboard utility, which fortunately/unfortunately doesn't support anything other than plain text. So if you have rich text on the clipboard and you want just the text, you can invoke JumpCut (Cmd-Shift-V by default) and it will paste just the plain text. So for a link copied from Safari, you just get the URL.


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