[zokier]

sorry for the minirant

This is something I find really frustrating in computing. We can do and are constantly doing such awesome and incredible things with computers. But at the same time transferring (copy-pasting) text from one application to another remains a challenge. And a reasonable solution for that is to bring in the 600lb gorilla that is a modern web browser to render fixed-width text into a bitmap so that it can be embedded into a presentation. It just feels so wrong, like the whole field is actually rotten inside under the shiny surface, while the state of the art blazes forwards thousand miles away from the real world. I, as a member of this community, feel utterly powerless to actually make the situation noticeably better, partly because of so much relies on interoperability, and partly because of the massive inertia that modern software carries.

I want out.

[yorwba]

Clipboards support storing different content for different MIME types at the same time. Atom would have to put text/html (or some other colored markup) in addition to text/plain into the clipboard and then Keynote would have to know what to insert. The infrastructure for interoperability is there, the endpoints just need to actually support it.

EDIT: Apparently, the problem is (or was in 2014) that Keynote doesn't support HTML and Chrome (Atom is Electron-based, right?) doesn't support RTF. Well worth a read: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/124167

[pjmlp]

Using Windows or OS X clipboard works perfectly fine, the author just uses applications that don't work as they should together.

I can easily do the same with Notepad++ and Powerpoint, just need to copy-paste in RTF.

[kuschku]

There is a simple solution for that, and it exists on Android.

On Android all text formatting is compatible between apps nicely, and can easily be copied between apps.