Paste text in CotEditor on Mac

You can paste text from the clipboard into the current editor by choosing Edit > Paste or pressing Command-V.

When pasting, CotEditor automatically normalizes the line endings in the pasted text to match the current document’s line endings so that you don’t need to care about the difference in the line endings types.

Paste exactly

Unlike the normal Paste command, Paste Exactly inserts the text from the clipboard without any implicit normalization.

  1. In the CotEditor app on your Mac, open a document.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Choose Edit > Paste Exactly while holding the Option key.

    • Press Command-Option-V.

Note: Paste Exactly can introduce inconsistent line endings into the document.