Hi fans,
I have been putting up with this cool feature, where mac puts in a space before the clipboard is pasted into say, a text field.
It seems to occur especially when a comma exists.
for example. I copy a word 'copyme'
Then I paste it into a tect field in safari and I get ' copyme' - note the extra space at the beginning.
How do I get OS X to paste exactly what I copied?
Many thanks.
MacBook Air 13", Mac OS X (10.6.6), 1.86GHz 4GB
I was looking to solve this same problem in TextEdit and found a solution. It turns out that Safari, and some other apps, have the same option which pastes the extra space in front if there is text already there. You can turn off this behavior by going to the "Edit" menu choosing "Substitutions" and uncheck the "Smart copy/paste" option.
I was looking to solve this same problem in TextEdit and found a solution. It turns out that Safari, and some other apps, have the same option which pastes the extra space in front if there is text already there. You can turn off this behavior by going to the "Edit" menu choosing "Substitutions" and uncheck the "Smart copy/paste" option.
Go to Safari / Preferences then select the Autofill tab. Click the Edit button next to: Other forms. Click: Remove All.
Quit then relaunch Safari. See if that helped.
Thanks for the suggestion, I unchecked this, rather than delete all my useful auto fills.
But I think the issue is in fact unrelated.
You see, if I copy + paste from another text field, mac pastes into the new text field without adding a space.
If I copy paste from another location, like a word from web page, there are spaces auto-added around the clipboard text when it is pasted into the text field.
Even if I 'Paste and Match Style' it adds these confounded spaces... but only in a text field - a <input type="text" value=""> etc.
Copy and paste is quite handy, copy and paste was designed to save time by reducing manual entry in general.
If it's a 'feature', I'd like to request a preference, 'add formating on paste' which would mean I control what goes in the text field, not mac. I'd rather add the spaces if they are needed pretty please if you know what I mean 🙂
Nice spotting, it appears to be this.
And I noticed it appears to need to be turned off for each type of input, like the tick appears for URL field, and other input fields after turning off on a previous type.
So, perhaps also really smart... but not so smart now!
Thanks
Here's how to fix this problem in Microsoft Entourage:
Entourage>Preferences>General> uncheck 'Use smart cut and paste'
Copy paste in text fields, extra space added
