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by groffee 1503 days ago
Just paste it into notepad/gedit/plain text editor first, then recopy it from there.
3 comments

Yeah right. If you just want the obvious basic functionality, you just need to do extra steps!

When people ask me why I like my CLI and TUI apps so much this is the example I give. It's much less likely that some UI/UX person has been involved and this means the the workflow will be logical and oriented to the task at hand.

OP probably know about this, they're just making a point that this should be default behavior.
Is there any plain text editor shipped with MacOS?
TextEdit:

"If there’s a format you prefer for new documents, you can set the default format. Choose TextEdit > Preferences, click New Document, then select “Rich text” or “Plain text” below Format."