Subj : Typing Those L-O-N-G
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sun Mar 15 2026 07:06:00


Hi Ky!

 > LibreOffice sometimes doesn't want to play nice.  Again not sure where
 > the source issue is: is it the copy function from the source (copy from
 > an on-line article, copy from a local source, etc.) or paste into
 > LibreOffice.  Or could be whatever data holding area is being
 > uncooperative.  Weirder: sometimes re-doing the copy/paste function two
 > or three times and it suddenly works.
 KM> Two problems:
 KM> When you copy from a web page, Firefox rewrites all the links to
 KM> be absolute links instead of relative. It also does some futzing
 KM> around with the formatting. This can take a LONG time even on a
 KM> fairly fast system. The solution, if you don't mind losing the
 KM> formatting, is an extension called "Copy Plain Text 2" assuming
 KM> it still exists. Then right-click will give you that option in
 KM> addition to ordinary "copy" and it will be as fast as you expect.

I'll have to check that out.  


 KM> When you paste formatted text (eg. HTML) into LibreOffice, it has
 KM> to reformat all the tags into XML, and that's also slow.
 KM> (LibreOffice is pig-slow to start with, and does really poor at
 KM> this sort of thing. Track Changes on a big document is a
 KM> nightmare.)

 KM> It's not that it suddenly works, it's that it finally caught up.

As a side-note type of thingie, sometimes when I copy a short command
from a Libre Office document -- sometimes as short as ~30 characters --
then paste to a Terminal it takes two or three tries to copy in the
correct text.  This seems to be something new with the last 5-6 months.


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