Plain Clip Changelog

What's new in Plain Clip 2.5.1

Dec 22, 2015
  • Added a preference for converting smart quotes to dumb quotes, i.e.: replaces all occurrences of any of the characters „ “ ” » « with " and all occurrences of › ‹ ‚ ‘ ’ with '

New in Plain Clip 2.5 (Feb 24, 2015)

  • Added a preference for performing normalization to Unicode Normalization Form C. Like all preferences, this is turned off by default, but is recommended to turn on.

New in Plain Clip 2.4.8 (Sep 23, 2013)

  • Fixed a problem where in certain cases triggering Plain Clip from a shortcut manager could interfere with sending the Cmd-V shortcut.

New in Plain Clip 2.4.7 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Changed the order of the processing steps so that when tabs are replaced with spaces and consecutive spaces are replaced by a single one, it will result in consecutive tabs being replaced by a single space.

New in Plain Clip 2.4.6 (Aug 13, 2012)

  • Corrects a mistake which made Plain Clip ignore some command-line switches

New in Plain Clip 2.4.5 (Aug 9, 2012)

  • Fixes an inadvertent text modification that could occur when stripping trailing whitespace

New in Plain Clip 2.4.4 (Aug 9, 2012)

  • Compatible with OS X 10.8

New in Plain Clip 2.4.3 (Jul 19, 2012)

  • Fixes a bug that could crash version 2.4.2

New in Plain Clip 2.4.2 (Jun 25, 2012)

  • Added a preference setting for removal of whitespace at the beginning and end of the whole text
  • Added a preference setting for replacing tab characters with spaces
  • Added a preference setting for removing leading whitespace at the beginning of each line

New in Plain Clip 2.4.1 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • Soft hyphens are removed.

New in Plain Clip 2.4 (Sep 1, 2010)

  • Added a preference setting for removing blank lines

New in Plain Clip 2.3 (May 30, 2010)

  • Added an option to convert text to strict 7bit ASCII
  • New application icon (slightly smaller, looks better when Plain Clip is in the Dock)

New in Plain Clip 2.2.1 (Dec 18, 2009)

  • Italian localization added.

New in Plain Clip 2.2 (Dec 4, 2009)

  • Optionally replaces consecutive spaces by a single space.

New in Plain Clip 2.1.1 (Oct 1, 2009)

  • Removal of whitespace at end of lines is more reliable.
  • Removes another invisible control character that was not stripped in previous versions.

New in Plain Clip 2.1 (May 21, 2009)

  • Introduced another optionally text filter: line breaks can be removed, but at the same time subsequent line breaks are retained, so that paragraphs in the text are preserved.
  • To (de-)activate these three options, please keep the Shift key pressed while launching Plain Clip.

New in Plain Clip 2.0 (Feb 5, 2009)

  • Starting with Plain Clip 2.0, there are two additional things that Plain Clip can do for you: remove trailing whitespace (spaces and tabs) from the ends of any lines of text, and strip (remove or replace with spaces) certain invisible characters, such as non-breaking spaces.