how to save text???

[Garance A Drosehn]

1> I could cut and paste text into another window and save
1> that, but it converts tabs and formatting into spaces and
1> line ends into hard returns and makes other undesirable
1> formatting changes.
1>
1> Is there anyway just to save simple ascii text?

2> Command-shift-V opens the page as HTML source in Edit.  This has
2> tags, but is otherwise probably the closest match to what you seem
2> to be asking for.

For those who have TickleServices, there's yet another way to do this.

# Begin TickleServices Version 1.11 Data
"Key Equivalent" = "V";
"Menu Item" = "AltEdit/Paste Plain Text";
"Receive Type" = "NXAsciiPboardType";
"Tcl" = "\
# paste plain text
pasteboard write [pasteboard -main read]
";
# End TickleServices Data



The above will take rich text that's already on the pasteboard
(due to a "copy" or "cut"), and will paste the plain-text version
of it at the current cursor position.  Of course, if you don't
have TickleServices then the above doesn't make much sense at all...
TickeServices is a very useful shareware application that's
available on various FTP archives.

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