Atto: Paste special
atto_pastespecial
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Joseph Inhofer
Joseph InhoferPasteSpecial button for Atto reduces clutter when pasting from non-Atto text editors.
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This is a plugin for Atto editor in Moodle that allows the user to paste content from several different rich formatting areas and either import the styling or import as unformatted text. To install, unpack to lib/editor/atto/plugins/pastespecial and visit the admin notifications page to install. Then add the button on that Atto toolbar settings page. The pastespecial settings page can be used to configure the allowed styles when importing formatting.
Pastespecial now "allows" tables (as of version 2016021100). It gets pasted in as normal without any handling. I STRONGLY encourage you to create your tables within Atto, but apparently not enough to artificially prohibit this.
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Joseph Inhofer (Lead maintainer)
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We've been using this plugin and it's great!
We've tried the 'Set as default' option and realized it is quite aggressive (many people are used to paste with 'Ctrl+V' and complained because they want it to do just that), but a user came with another option that I'd like to see in this plugin: the option to trigger Paste Special when the user types 'Ctrl+Shift+V', as this is the special paste command used in other software. This could added as another option to the actual 'Set as default' setting: Disabled, Set as default Ctrl+V, Set as default Ctrl+Shift+V (new).
Thank you for your suggestion! The latest version, 2016031100, does have the "set as default" setting changed to a single select that has the options of "none", "ctrl+v", and "ctrl+shift+v". Let me know if this is different from what you'd like, or if you'd be interested in having any more improvements to this plugin.
It does just what I expected. I think the most reasonable default value is "Ctrl+Shift+V" as you decided so it couldn't be better
Great work Joseph!
Any chance that we might be seeing a version of Paste Special that is compatible with newer releases of Moodle (3.1 to 3.4) in the near future or have you abandoned the project? I could really use this functionality in Moodle 3.4.
Best regards,
Michael
Hope to see a version of Paste Special for Moodle 3.5 in the near future.
Best regards,
Michael
Your plugin is highly appreciated. Any chance for a newer version
Bert
It should certainly be considered as to be adopted : https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Plugins_adoption_programme
If someone wants to work on it, don't hesitate to do the necessary.