Widgets in plain text: Unintentional neat feature?

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In the course of my learning UE4, I stumbled upon the fact that when you copy Widget components from the designer, they go into your clipboard as plain-text. Even more interesting: you can paste the same text into the designer to recreate components. This has also allowed me to share entire widget layouts in text, hosted on pastebin:

This has since become a regularly-used tool at my disposal, as procedurally editing text is easy. That grid panel with a billion tiny sizeboxes? Let me just dump it into notepad++ real quick and made the changes I need. Anyone else find a good use for this functionality?

(Principle reason for this post is to share what I see as a valuable and overlooked feature.)

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Is an interesting feature, would be nice to know what kind of scripting language is used and if exist any sort of documentation.

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That’s cool, but afaik it’s not new. You can copy past as plain text almost everything in ue4: BP nodes, material nodes, Even actors from the hierarchy can be copied (the best way to duplicate a post-process for example :P)