Copyq: Shortcut for paste as plain text from item list

[m4r71n]

I saw https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ/issues/35 but instead of a global shortcut I would like to have an application shortcut to paste HTML/rich text as plain text.
For instance "Ditto clipboard manager" uses shift + enter as shortcut.

[hluk]

Should be possible with the following command which actually doesn't always work because copyq copy does't wait for the clipboard to be set so the copyq paste can possibly paste previous clipboard content.

If you want to try this out, create new command in Configuration/Commands tab (using "Add" button), set "Format" to text/plain, check "In Menu" checkbox, set "Command" to copyq copy - | copyq hide | copyq paste and set a "Shortcut" to Shift+Enter.

You can use other command to set the clipboard -- e.g. xclip -selection clipboard | copyq hide | copyq paste (which seems to work well).

This would be pretty useful, so I'll add it as a new sample command after it works properly.

[m4r71n]

Thanks. This is pretty awesome!
Both commands work but with your above mentioned limitation. Is there a workaround or will there be a fix?

[hluk]

I'll try to fix it properly -- i.e. there should be test if the clipboard content is properly set in copy function or error out.

So keep this issue open for now.

[hluk]

Fixed: a0e53dd9a1de200c97be1a5632e9144f80c91717

[m4r71n]

Thanks for the fast fix! Are the Travis CI build artifacts available for download? Because i don't have a build setup but want to test this change.

[hluk]

I don't think Windows is supported on Travis CI. I build Windows packages myself. Also AFAIK there is no easy way to upload packages build by Travis.

I would be glad for such a service if there is free one.

[orschiro]

Should be possible with the following command which actually doesn't always work because copyq copy does't wait for the clipboard to be set so the copyq paste can possibly paste previous clipboard content.

If you want to try this out, create new command in Configuration/Commands tab (using "Add" button), set "Format" to text/plain, check "In Menu" checkbox, set "Command" to copyq copy - | copyq hide | copyq paste and set a "Shortcut" to Shift+Enter.

You can use other command to set the clipboard -- e.g. xclip -selection clipboard | copyq hide | copyq paste (which seems to work well).

This would be pretty useful, so I'll add it as a new sample command after it works properly.

Dear @hluk

I tried your outlined solution but it's not exactly what I am looking for (I think). Let me outline my process:

1. I have set up Ctrl + V to open the list menu (the same which is opened from the tray icon)
2. From there I am selecting one of the values from 0 to 4 to paste into the currently focused input field

I do like that it keeps the formatting when pasting. However, sometimes I want to paste one of those values as plain text. Is there a solution to address this?

Solution would be: From the same menu being able to choose to paste with formatting or as plain text.

Looking forward.

Yours

[hluk]

@orschiro I've just changed the behavior (6e01ef0ee97eca631578f979c0bc847f800957da) so that holding Shift when selecting an item from menu (or usingShift+Enter) will copy/paste only plain text.

[orschiro]

@hluk very nice! Thank you so much. Will be released in v3.6.2? :-)

Yours

[hluk]

Will be released in v3.6.2?

Yup, either that one or 3.7.0 (whatever the next version will be).