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The most brute force method to deal with this would be to add a listener for the copy event and modify the copied text to remove lines and other formatting that you consider extra. document.addEve...
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The most brute force method to deal with this would be to add a listener for the copy event and modify the copied text to remove lines and other formatting that you consider extra.
```js
document.addEventListener('copy', function(e){
// Get the copied text
const text = window.getSelection().toString();
// Do some modification
const cleanedCopy = doSomeProcessing(text);
// Change the clipboard data.
e.clipboardData.setData('text/plain', cleanedCopy);
e.preventDefault();
});
```
In your case I think you do not want the double new lines in the copied text. This would be a very rough fix as it would remove any legitimate double newlines as well. And doesn't account for copying images, etc.
```
document.addEventListener('copy', function(e){
const text = window.getSelection().toString();
// Change all double newlines whether on windows or unix to just one newline.
e.clipboardData.setData('text/plain', text.replaceAll(`\n\n`, `\n`).replaceAll(`\r\n\r\n`, `\r\n`));
e.preventDefault();
});
```
