Not sure if this appropriate to put as a question or not? It's sort of a scripting question I think. Just down vote me if not :p
Basically, what I'm looking for is a way to push a windows hotkey and have whatever text is in the clipboard be stripped of formatting. An example of what the macro could do:
I push (whatever hotkey combo here)
open notepad.exe
Paste to notepad from clipboard
Select all text in notepad
Copy/Cut all text from notepad
Close notepad
I'm just wondering if someone has done something like this before, or knows how it could be accomplished. I think this could be a huge time-saver for almost anyone. I find myself doing this all the time when cutting and pasting between different office applications, etc.
Have you heard of Puretext, it appears to do what you're looking for:
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
Instead of emulating hotkeys to control Notepad, you can write code to implement what Notepad implements when it gets text from the clipboard: i.e. use the clipboard API to get the clipboard contents as unformatted text.
Try AutoHotKey to make a tiny and easy script to do what you want.
You will find a powerful windows interface macro programing tool.
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The Atom editor is a very good product, but in some areas it attempts to deviate from long standing user interface standards for operating systems, which can extremely annoying.
For example, on a Mac running OS/X, all apps compliant with Apple's guidelines will handle a Copy command with no selection by leaving the clipboard intact. On Atom, this action will either delete the contents of the clipboard if the line is empty, or overwrite them with the contents of the entire line.
Deviating from such very basic user interface guidelines is not a good idea, but if it's going to be done, the deviation should be an option, not the default.
Is there a way to force Atom to behave the way it should on a Mac, through options or scripting?
Figured it out.
Adding the following at the bottom of the keymap.cson configuration file returned Cmd-C to the correct behavior.
'body':
'cmd-c': 'native!'
To edit the keymap.cson file open Preferences, then Keybindings, then click on "your keymap file" at the end of the sentence under the "Keybindings" title.
I have a very basic VBS script that I plan on using frequently on my Windows 7 machine. Is there any way I can bind it to a keyboard shortcut so I don't have to navigate to it through Explorer obnoxiously.
I realize this question does not directly pertain to programming, or even scripting for that matter, but I could not find a straight answer online or through my own experimentation. I'm sure that there is a simple solution somewhere...
Thank you for taking the time to read, and hopefully respond to my inquiry.
Evin Ugur.
Windows does have built-in support for shell shortcut keys, where a keypress is used to invoke an *.lnk file that launches your VBScript (using either cscript or wscript).
Create a shortcut file, have it invoke your VBScript file directly or run cscript or wscript with the appropriate arguments, then save it and open its Properties sheet and set a keystroke in the "Shortcut key" field (I suggest something like Ctrl+Alt+K).
Like so:
Then, whenever you press Ctrl+Alt+K, regardless of the active application, your script will be invoked.
A more heavy-duty alternative is AutoHotKey: http://www.autohotkey.com/
Just as an FYI.
I tried this and I was not able to register the hotkey when I had the Icon in a costume folder. Even if I added the hotkey, it failed to work.
Once I moved the icon to the "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs", the hotkey started to work.
Coding PHP on a Mac using TextEdit. It's always annoying to have to type the same lines of code that I use over and over (Ex: MyClass::myLocalizedString('Hello');).
Anyone know of a useful editor for Mac that can save me time by allowing me to predefine a string and bind it to a hotkey combination?
Ex: Cmd+1 pastes the text MyClass::myLocalizedString('');
Tincta Pro also has a code-snippets feature with shortcut expansion.
(Disclaimer: I'm the developer of Tincta)
I think there are plenty of choises. For instance, you can use Keyboard Maestro to create a hotkey or use TextExpander for short snippet. I think you might be able to create this with Quicksilver too, but for this I'm not sure.
I am looking for a solution to a specific use case:
When I read something on my browser or pdf reader, I want to take notes without switching windows. I want to type right on my browser or pdf reader, but the typed text should go to the background text editor like notepad.
Is this possible?
Do you know any existing automation script that handles this use case?
You should create an application that uses some keylogger-like techniques (e.g. global hooks) to monitor the keypresses and, depending on some condition (a setting you may have set, the currenctly active window, ...), it may pass them normally to the application or suppress them to store them in a buffer. Such buffer, then, would be shown to the user as needed.
Still, in my opinion a much more convenient way to perform a similar task would be to create an application consisting of a semitransparent edit box, that could be shown and hide simply with a hotkey. This would avoid all the hooks stuff and the potential problems that may arise from them.
you might try using autohotkey scripting language... I can write a little script that would do exactly what you need and afaik in this particular case it wouldnt need keyboard hooks.
--EDIT--
Autohotkey is VERY simple to use/learn so even if you want to do the script yourself you can do it in a very short time even if you dont have any knowledge of ahk. Then again, I can help you with it.
How can I see what the Windows clipboard currently contains without using the paste operation?
I don't want the "pasted-to" application to perform any actions on the clipboard (for example, formatting text and converting).
Is there a tool which shows the clipboard's objects and their format (CF_BITMAP, CF_TEXT, etc.) and content (in simple bytes for example)?
There is a list of clipboard manager tools at Wikipedia:
Clipboard manager
ClipX allows you to view a log of previous clipboard entries by pressing Ctrl + Shift + V.
NirSoft offers a free “Inside Clipboard” utility which allows you to see the raw clipboard contents and different formats. It’s close to what you would see with a programmatic API but with a nice GUI. Its GUI includes hex view. It also allows data to be exported and allows saving a snapshot to a .clp file which it can open and allow you to examine later.
If you need to see things at the level of the programmatic API to quick check things without writing a program yourself, I recommend this tool.
If using .NET you can query the Clipboard object.
How about the regular old Clipbrd.exe clipboard viewer from Windows XP?
That'll still run on Windows Vista and Windows 7, IIRC.
Select run from the start menu.
Enter "clipbrd.exe" in it.
Then you can see the clipboard items in the Windows systems.