[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 98381] Pasting text at the beginning of a style changes the style to that of the pasted text

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98381

--- Comment #20 from William Friedman <will.friedman at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Cor Nouws from comment #19)
> (In reply to William Friedman from comment #18)
> > I cannot see any circumstance under which a user would
> > deliberately set a style and paste text into it and *not* expect the text to
> > be changed to the selected style (while retaining character attributes like
> > bold and italics and whatever).
> Simply the other way round.
> I do an Enter, paragraph style is unchanged (e.g. Text Body) and I copy
> paste some text with a different style that I want to be retained.
> Changing the behavior for your case, would break it in this case.
> So I would not change it.

Yeah, I hear that. That's why I suggested (on the other bug thread) allowing
users to configure which default paste behavior they want, and to add a "paste
special" option that would allow selecting each individual attribute to retain
and which to override. Designing for flexibility rather than having the
software second guess the user, or worse, impose some presumed use case on the
user, seems like a better option to me.

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