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Even after several years use, I did not notice this item and effectively ended up coding my own. Judging by comments, I am not the only one who failed to find this build-in feature: http://coffeecokeandcode.blogspot.com/2008/05/special-copypaste.html Printing signifies something to do with a physical printing device and paper, rather than something to do with formatting or exports. Consider relocating the item under "Export..." and renaming the item to "As HTML...".
Reassigned to component "editor".
Thanks and nice plugin, mrmorris! Ondro, do you have any suggestion?
I think this needs to be broader than just the use case for "copy from netbeans and paste into my blog." For example, I would most like to copy formatted source code from NetBeans and paste it into StarOffice presentations. So could we get something like mrmorris's special copy/paste that includes a few formats: - copy as HTML - copy as RTF - copy as plain text with line numbers
For Java sources, the situation is quite clear and relocating the item under "Export..." and renaming it to "As HTML..." would be clear. However, with other source files the situation gets more difficult. The result of Export -> "As HTML..." invoked upon CSS, JavaScript, Ruby or even HTML file would be highly unpredictable and confusing for some if not majority of users. "Print" keyword is used since the primary use-case of this action (as I understand it) is displaying the code for human reading (reference or educational purpose, not for machine interpretation) Since moving under the export would create a new category (UI clutter) and cause eventual problems, I'm closing this as WONTFIX. Please re-open for further discussion if you think there are strong arguments against this decision. Thanks.