Browser Address Bar is my text formatting remover, What's yours?

I used Win+R for many years until I read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28598474

Now I use Notepad or Ctrl+Shift+v.

One advantage to using Notepad is that it reveals newlines in your paste data very clearly, so you can select a substring if needed.

I’ve always got BBEdit open and a quick New file from clipboard command creates the document. I can either recopy that or do some adjustment and then recopy. It’s a little more effort than using the browser address bar, but I can more easily see and fix problems.

Ctrl+Shift+v pastes from the clipboard while sufficiently removing the formatting for most of my use cases.

I use control-shift-V for pasting without formatting. When in doubt I will paste it first in gedit.

Paste (clipboard shared between Mac and iPhone)

Notepad & browser address bar

Emacs

Leafpad

cat

notepad