[Infernal]

I use the Option+Shift+Command+V all the time, especially in emails - that text that I copied from SAP or a Word doc invariably has bizarre formatting and if I Command+V paste it into my email, now the rest of what I type after it is going to be screwed up. A four button shortcut sounds like a pain, but once you use it two or three times it comes pretty naturally. Similar to Command+Control+Shift+4 for setting up a screenshot that will grab straight to clipboard, it's easier than it sounds when doing it on the regular.

[ballenf]

I wish email clients would ignore font and font size, but maybe not bold & italics of content pasted into the middle of an existing paragraph.

But keep almost all formatting (except font size) if pasted into a new empty paragraph.

But under no circumstances have the formatting under the cursor after the operation changed.

I know that breaks all convention and would probably cause more problems, but boy would I be happy.

[Infernal]

Yeah - seems like it would be one of those things that you could allow the user to configure and they'd set it once and never again. I suppose you could switch your client to plaintext composition, but would be nice if there was a setting like you describe "don't change formatting after pasting" and/or "always strip formatting when pasting".