In Intellij idea if you paste some text into a string literal (between double quotes) the java editor can automatically reformat the pasted text – ie to place necessary escaping characters for double quotes new lines etc.
I want to do reverse, ie when copying text from inside a string literal the editor to place the clean text in the clipboard without the escaping characters, double quotes and new lines separated by plus signs etc.
For example when a paste these XML lines
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <a></a>
into a string literal in Intellij Java editor it becomes:
String str = "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>n" +
"<a></a>"
I want when I copy from this string literal to have an option for storing the clean text in the clipboard as it was before pasting. Ie to have the original text back.
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Answer
Place cursor at value of the string and followed by Alt + Enter | Copy String Concatenation Text to the Clipboard