copy and paste code with formatting

Is there a way to copy from Matlab editor in a way that preserves formatting, so when I paste into another application it appears just as it did in Matlab? One possibility was if Matlab could receive a Notepad++ plug-in.

I realized that copy and paste works for the Matlab editor, but my actual application was to preserve formatting (font and color) in the Command Window.

[Bob Thompson]

What formatting are you looking to preserve? Text color?

[Larry Brunson]

Color and font. My actual concern was preserving formatting from the Command Window, but I asked about Editor because I thought that question may be more common, and may have the same answer. Then I realized that copy & paste already preserves formatting for the Editor. Does anyone else care about preserving error messages in their original formatting?

[Rik]

A Notepad++ plugin is impossible, since there is no way to know if a text should be red, orange or black, even assuming you haven't changed those colors in your preferences.

I had expected that it would already do that (copy with format) to e.g. Word, but apparently that doesn't. I guess there is probably some Java wizardry you could do to do it anyway.