Re: Disabling ultra-annoying "drag text with html markup from browsers"

Ben Fritz wrote:

> On Oct 23, 7:10 am, Bram Moolenaar <B...@Moolenaar.net> wrote:
> > Andrei Avk wrote:
> > > Hi, I asked about this (Disabling "drag text with html markup from
> > > browsers") about a month ago and I finally got around to trying to find
> > > a fix and was able to do this by recompiling Gvim with following lines
> > > commented out:
> >
> > > static const GtkTargetEntry selection_targets[] =
> > >      /* {"text/html",    0, TARGET_HTML},  */
> >
> > > static const GtkTargetEntry dnd_targets[] =
> > >      /* {"text/html",    0, TARGET_HTML},  */
> >
> > > Hopefully if anyone else needs this they'll be able to find this
> > > temporary fix.
> >
> > Have you tried removing "html" from the 'clipboard' option?
> >
> > > However, it seems like a completely pointless and annoying feature..
> > > possibly it would be better to disable html drops by default and have it
> > > available as an option?
> >
> > This is a very useful feature if you are working on web pages.
> > I have used it to copy syntax-highlighted code, the output from 2html,
> > into a web page that is edited through a browser.
> >
>
> Hold on...are you saying Vim automatically uses 2html on a selection
> when dragging that selection to a browser?!
>
> If so, I did not know that!

No, after using 2html you can copy the result and paste it as HTML into
some browser text window. Works for Google sites.

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