.Net Slave - Introducing Pretty Paste for VS2012
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One of the things that have annoyed me about Visual Studio for many years, is the inconsistency when pasting code copied from websites. Depending on the browser you get different results. Consider the code snippet below copied from one of Sayed’s blog posts.
If I copy that from Internet Explorer and paste it into Visual Studio, this is what I get:
And copied from Chrome result in this:
As you can see, both browsers include the line numbers, but they interpret them differently. Both browsers fail to understand my intent for copying the text and it has been that way forever. Very annoying. In tooling, understanding the user’s intent is the holy grail.
So, in a rare moment of clarity a few days ago, I decided to fix this issue by writing an extension for Visual Studio - Pretty Paste. The idea is to inject some logic just before the regular Paste command in VS executes. That logic will quickly analyze the text being pasted and correct any non-intended line numbers and extra blank lines.
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Visual Studio Gallery - Pretty Paste
Fixes the issue where copied text introduces new blank lines and line numbers
Open source and pull requests accepted https://github.com/madskristensen/PasteR
Suggest features and report bugs here
Learn more about why Pretty Paste is a good idea.
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Because I seem to be on this "paste" kick for some reason... Really, I write my code... really... :/
And I really appreciate that this is source available... :)
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