Add setting to disable copy with syntax highlighting

[daviwil]

• VSCode Version: 1.10.1
• OS Version: Windows 10

There doesn't seem to be a way to turn off the default behavior of copy/pasting with syntax highlighting. Some users may have a workflow where they want to paste text into an external rich edit text box (like a web form) without the extra formatting but there doesn't seem to be a way to turn this off right now.

/cc @rebornix @RamblingCookieMonster

[yfdyh000]

Duplicate of #21071.

[jamesfancy]

There are two actions in VSCode:

• editor.action.clipboardCopyAction
• edtior.action.clipboardCopyWithSyntaxHighlightingAction

We can bind one of them to Ctrl+C. So that if clipbordCopyAction does copy without formatting, everything would be okay.

[melipharo]

It seems that this does not works on 1.18.0. I've set those variables in "keybindings.json":
{ "key": "ctrl+shift+alt+c", "command": "editor.action.clipboardCopyWithSyntaxHighlightingAction" }, { "key": "ctrl+c", "command": "editor.action.clipboardCopyAction" }
but when I'm hitting Ctrl+C and pasting the clipboard in the rich edit (such as web form or a word/excel), I've got the highlighted text instead of just the text only. The ctrl+shift+alt+c does the same thing as the Ctrl+C.

[tatoosh]

How to get it working to copy without format?

[AlGantori]

How to get it working to copy without format?

[ioma8]

Hello, please how do I set copy to not pick up formatting???

[xan1000]

In case anyone else comes here - I still haven't found an answer to this outside work arounds, e.g., pasting the clipboard into a plain-text file and copying it again. I made an extension called "CopyPlainText" as a less annoying work around which adds a command palette for this.