Disable rich-text copying?

No other thoughts? This new feature gets in my way pretty much every day, when I paste text into a rich-text email and it's huge, and in a different font and color.

The ability to setup special settings for this is great, if you need it, but a simple checkbox or dropdown selection for plain text would really make a lot of sense.

Invoke Help->Action, type "Registry" and disable "editor.richcopy.enable"

Thank you, great answer! I'm always amazed at everyting IDEA has in it, very mature product with a ton of features and control, love it.

This isn't as good a solution as if one of the options in the Rich-text copy dropdown was 'Disable', and I see you've already filed an issue for that, great.

I've never heard of this Registry dialog, and can't find any references to it in the help. I also don't quite understand it.

• Should we consider this a workaround/hack, or an interface to settings people don't typically need to touch?
• Is anything in there so dangerous we shouldn't change it?
• Does IDEA actually honor all these settings?
• What are the checkmarks in the lefthand column?
• What does the Edit button do? Nothing, as far as I can tell.
• What's the difference between the smaller '-' (Revert) button at the top and the big Restore Defaults button at the bottom?
  • Does the top one apply only to highlighted items?
    
  • Does the 'Delete' indication in its tooltip mean it actually removes items from this dialog, or just reverts their settings to the factory default?
• Just out of curiousity, what is wolf.the.problem.solver?
• FYI, the description for localHistory.daysToKeep is messed up.

Anyway, thank you again for this specific solution, it's just what I needed.

About registry dialog: Short answer - don't touch it unless instructed by an authorized person.

Long answer: Here you can configure some [hidden/experimental/not ready for production/known problem workaround] options throughout IntelliJ's features.

Check mark in the leftmost column indicates setting which requires a restart to take effect.

Oh, and really, do not change anything unless you know what it does.

Thanks for the info, appreciate it.

I already changed a few things whose meanings seemed clear:

• tabs.alphabetical
• localHistory.daysToKeep
• keymap.show.alias.actions (not completely clear on this, thought I'd check it out)

Should I put those back? If so, please tell me about the two different Revert buttons.

Thanks again.

tabs.alphabetical: affects editor tabs ordering
localHistory.daysToKeep: determines number of days for which local history will keep backups (depends on your usage if and how long you need it)
keymap.show.alias.actions: shows alias actions (?) in Keymap configuration editor

"Restore Defaults" will reset _all_ configuration keys, whereas the "-" button on top of table will only revert currently selected entry.

Thanks, that's all about what I figured, and it seems you're not any clearer than me on what"alias actions" are.

You also didn't tell me to revert any of those immediately, so I won't :)

Thanks again for all your help, very much appreciated. I think I like tabs in alpha order maybe, and disabling rich text copying is a huge hassle-saver.

Excuse me for necroposting, but the solution by Yann Cebron is no longer valid. In IDEA 2017.2.3 there is no registry key "editor.richcopy.enable" anymore :(

Is there any other solution besides obvious workarounds like pasting in notepad and copying again?

It looks like there is a setting to enable or disable rich text copying behavior. See this help article.

Now, v2018.2, it's available from the setting menu. Editor->General->Rich-text_copy

I think that a better solution it's define a shotcut for copy plain text. You can define it on Settings -> Keymap -> "Copy as Plain Text"

Is very handy the shortcut "Ctrl + Shift + C" because several text editors use the same one for that function

I think it was added to Settings window: IntelliJ → Settings → search for “rich text” and disable it in Editor → General → Rich-Text Copy

It's not available in the registry anymore