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From: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya239@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML
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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