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Enhancement request: sequential copy and paste #157

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0n0mat0p03ia opened this issue Aug 29, 2024 · 4 comments
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Enhancement request: sequential copy and paste #157

0n0mat0p03ia opened this issue Aug 29, 2024 · 4 comments

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@0n0mat0p03ia
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Not sure if the following is currently possible in PB. For example, when viewing a web page with a table of data:

ABCD
EFGH
JKLM

Want to highlight all the items at once and copy each as an individual item sequentially to the clipboard. Then, switch to another application such as Google Sheets or Excel and paste them in sequence. For example, Cmd+V Cmd+V Cmd+V Cmd+V would paste:

ABCD

Optionally, when performing the sequential paste, simulate a key press, such as TAB, after each paste action. For example, if pasting into Excel/Google at cell A1, Cmd+V [TAB] Cmd+V [TAB] Cmd+V [TAB] Cmd+V [TAB] would paste:

ABCD

With "A" in cell A1 and "D" in cell A4.

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kurdin commented Aug 29, 2024

@0n0mat0p03ia I don't think its possible what you asking but you can copy values one by one, and paste it in sequence suing pinned history items.

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OK. This is functionality I've seen in other clipboard managers, so I thought it would be possible to implement it in PB.

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kurdin commented Aug 29, 2024

@0n0mat0p03ia could you please point me to the clipboard managers with such functionality so I can take a look at functional implementation. There is not way you can do Cmd+V Cmd+V Cmd+V Cmd+V to paste different values one by one. There is no pattern to predict or detect user wanted action, if user wants to paste a single value on Cmd+V press or on the next Cmd+V press to paste the next item's value and so on.

@0n0mat0p03ia
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CleanClip has this functionality, take a look at the video "Paste Stack - Perfect workflow assistant" on that page. You can also see the functionality starting at 0:08 in the video on this Reddit post.

Apologies if I didn't describe this correctly, these videos should hopefully make it clear.

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