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From: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya239@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:52:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wzo8upvars3.fsf@node1391.broadinstitute.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tx8j9zo5.fsf@gmail.com

torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:

> We often read online articles with headings and sometimes
> subheadings. They may also include bold, italic, and hyperlinks, all
> of which are supported by Org. Is there any way to preserve this
> formatting if I copy-paste into org/emacs, the same way it's preserved
> when I paste into Word or into a Google Document/email? Or is this
> fundamentally difficult in emacs? It would be a tremendous feature.

There is an extension for doing this when copying from emacs-w3m into
org: http://orgmode.org/w/?p=org-mode.git;a=blob_plain;f=lisp/org-w3m.el;hb=HEAD

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-21 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-21 10:47 Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML Tory S. Anderson
2014-05-21 12:04 ` Bastien
2014-05-21 12:06 ` Albert Krewinkel
2014-05-23 17:31   ` Tory S. Anderson
2014-05-21 18:52 ` Ilya Shlyakhter [this message]

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