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Dreunin t1_j5589iv wrote

I've always done this! People consider me insane but can name no better alternative. Ctrl + shift + v rarely gets rid of the line breaks.

If someone knows a shortcut, I'd love to know

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BranWafr t1_j55f0rz wrote

Notepad++ can easily strip out line breaks, so I just paste into that and remove the line breaks with a search and replace.

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Dreunin t1_j55f7tj wrote

Sure, you can do that, but it's still not as fast

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CapnHanSolo t1_j560szk wrote

What if I just press ctrl+f on the pdf and use the find bar. Would that work

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Bunanuhs t1_j57qgrq wrote

You use the replace function and replace "^p" with a single space.

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dubbzy104 t1_j562vix wrote

Probably not. Notepad++ and other text editors look for the new line character “\n”, whereas most pdf search tools will look for the literal characters \ and n

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DigitalSteven1 t1_j564f9s wrote

Just a minor correction, the almost universal escape character is a backslash. i.e. it's "\n" rather than "/n."

Windows does some funny stuff in cmd and powershell, being caret (^) and backtick (`). Afaik "/" isn't used anywhere, though.

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dubbzy104 t1_j565brs wrote

Gah, you’re right! I blame it on me being on mobile so the key locations are different, and me being sleep deprived. Surely it’s not because I’m a bad programmer…

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Old_timey_brain t1_j59v0ar wrote

Are these not simple formatting options we want to get rid of?

I paste into a new email set to plain text, then copy back out.

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bbqfoot34 t1_j58q9ma wrote

I really tried with notepad but it doesn't seem to strip everything as effectively as a url. I wish there was an add-on because sometimes there's a lot of text

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BranWafr t1_j592dqq wrote

Not Notepad, Notepad++, they are very different programs.

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deathstark t1_j56e068 wrote

If you paste into excel, you can press CTRL J in the find box and replace with space. Probably not quicker though

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Che_Pibe t1_j56oq12 wrote

I mentioned above, if you're on a Mac, paste into a spotlight search (cmd+space) and copy it.

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HornetKick t1_j5gcov8 wrote

>shortcut

Just use Notepad. It removes formatting automatically. I keep a version with my resume just to be able to copy/paste quickly.

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