PlaintextPaste is a simple SparkPlugin that adds a "Paste Plain Text" item to the Edit menu of all Cocoa applications. Normally the Paste menu item will preserve all colors, styles, fonts and formatting of so-called "rich text." However, sometimes, you don't want all this formatting, especially when copying text from the web. Thus, "Paste Plain Text." PlaintextPaste 0.2 also introduces three new items: Copy Plain Text, Paste 7-bit ASCII, and Swap Selection With Clipboard, as well as enabling the Special Characters item again (when an InputManager, including SparkPlug or SIMBL is installed, this item is removed). You can control which items are enabled or disable with the SparkPlug pane in System Preferences.
PlaintextPaste 0.2
Downloads
Installing PlaintextPaste is pretty easy. Just run the installer program provided in the zip file. A file called "PlaintextPaste.bundle" will be installed in your /Library/SparkPlugins folder, and SparkPlug itself is installed in /Library/InputManagers and /Library/PreferencePanes. Your applications will be left untouched, so if you ever have problems with PlaintextPaste, uninstalling it is as easy as deleting the files mentioned above.
To configure PlaintextPaste, open the System Preferences application, and select SparkPlug. Once the SparkPlug pane opens, select PlaintextPaste from the list on the left. You can view help by clicking on the "Help" tab, or configure which applications PlaintextPaste opens in with the "Applications" tab. Select which menu items are enabled by selecting the "Settings" tab. For more information on SparkPlug, visit SparkPlug's site. Information on each of the menu items is below.
Paste Plain Text
To uninstall PlaintextPaste, open the installer (if you saved it) and click the uninstall button, or simply delete /Library/SparkPlugins/PlaintextPaste.bundle and optionally the entire /Library/InputManagers/SparkPlug directory.