Sublime Text 3 - Clean Paste

Question

Sublime Text 3 is looking great, but one item that is keeping me from switching is the compatibility of Clipboard Commands. The only thing I use this plugin for is the "clean_paste" function which basically makes pasting copied content from Microsoft Word (or any other text editor) strip out the funny characters it normally comes with. Does anyone know of a native function that ST3 provides that I can map a keybinding to? Here is what ClipboardCommand does (in the ST2 version):

class ClipboardCommandsPastePlainText(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit):
        copy(clean_paste(clipboard()))
        self.view.run_command('paste')

Possibly more of a Python question in general as well, but you can also create your own keybindings and this one basically just references that command:

"caption": "Clipboard: Paste Plain Text",
"command": "clipboard_commands_paste_plain_text"

So if the command is something I could just put that function into that'd be great, but not sure how that works in Python. Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Not too much work to make this python 3 compatible:

# coding=utf8
import sublime_plugin, sublime, re, html

def clipboard():
    return sublime.get_clipboard()

def copy(data):
    sublime.set_clipboard(data)

# to transfer data to sublime text
def clean_paste(data):
    # clean word
    data = str(data)
    data = data.replace(u'”', '"').replace(u'“', '"').replace(u'’', "'")
    data = data.replace('________________________________________', '\n')
    # clean htmlentities
    data = re.sub('&([^;]+);', lambda m: unichr(html.entities.name2codepoint[m.group(1)]), data)
    return data;

# to transfer data from sublime text
def clean_copy(data):
    # clean html
    data = str(data)
    data = re.sub(r'<br ?/?>', '\n', data, re.I);
    data = re.sub(r'<[^>]*>', '', data);
    # clean htmlentities
    data = re.sub('&([^;]+);', lambda m: unichr(html.entities.name2codepoint[m.group(1)]), data)
    return data;

I've forked the linked plugin and uploaded the changes here

Tested it in sublime3 and it appears to work, but without test cases I'll leave that one to you.