Comments on: Remove Text Formatting With Plain Clip

By: Segovia

Segovia — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:52:24 +0000

At first I had the same issue as Edward. When I use your command:

do shell script “‘/Applications/Plain Clip.app/pc’ -v”

It either outputs the entire line above instead of what’s on my clipboard, or makes an audible error sound.

I’ve tried to “Remove the text formatting” from my clipboard when pasting your original string into TextExpander but I finally got it to work by typing the entire thing from scratch. (go figure)

Now I’m having the issue Cnlan described. It’s putting the first two characters of my text string command from TextExpander before my clipboard text. I’m a new TextExpander user so I’m not sure if this is an issue with the way the “do shell script” command works, or a bug with TE itself?

Any suggestions?

PS. I’ve tried to change the abbreviation for TE to over a dozen different combinations and the same thing happens each time. I’m using TextExpander V2.8.1 because I’m not on Snow Leopard yet.

By: Conlan

Conlan — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:43:46 +0000

I’ve been having a problem with the TextExpander implementation. When I follow the instructions above and type “;pc” the copied text replaces only the “c” with the text. For example, if I copy “Don’t eat my Jello.” then type “;pc”, the text appears as follows: “;pDon’t eat my Jello.”

Ideas?

By: SUBERAPPS

SUBERAPPS — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:33:55 +0000

Edward: Try re-typing both ” ‘ in your script. When you copy the text from this post, the snippet is copied as formatted text.

By: Edward Haskins

Edward Haskins — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:35:42 +0000

I downloaded Plain Clip today; excited to use it. I’m trying to configure it with Text Expander, but it didn’t work on my initial test. Would you take a quick look at the screenshot (link) and see if I did it correctly?

Your directions said to set it for AppleScript, but this was before Text Expander had Shell Script available. When I first tried AppleScript as the source type, it just substituted my text with the full string of the command. When I switched to Shell Script, it beeps when I get to the t in my ;pt …and it doesn’t type the t at first…I have to hit the button a second time.

So, something isn’t right…probably an easy fix since I’m not all that familiar with script commands.

http://img.skitch.com/20091120-mcqpcxdpx47wu2kp622h9uspyp.jpg

Thanks for taking a look,
Ed

By: Lu Nelson

Lu Nelson — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:54:26 +0000

Note: you can paste text system-wide using Command-Shift-Option-V and it will drop the copied formatting and take on the formatting of where you are pasting it.