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Subject: Re: Yanking as HTML
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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've tried googling for this for a few minutes, but I haven't found
> anything promising (without relying on uncommon external programs).
>
> I sometimes copy text from Firefox to Emacs, and when I'm pasting into
> HTML documents, I would sometimes prefer to retain the HTML formatting
> of what I'm copying.

Isn't https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-html/
what you are looking for ?