Jacob Munson
9 discussion posts
I am new to ClipboardFusion. What I would like is to always copy text keeping formatting in place (say bold, italics, etc). If I paste it would paste the formatted text by default. But I'd like to use a different hotkey to paste as plain text. I found the Trigger that scrubs text on copy and disabled that. So I have the first half working...copy formated and then paste formatted. But now I'd like to setup a hotkey that would scrub the text on paste.
I have searched the settings, the Macros, and this Discussion board and can't find out how to do this. What am I missing?
Jun 21, 2019 (modified Jun 21, 2019)
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What I usually do is enable the Triggers, but set the Trigger Command to the "double-copy" option, so that it only scrubs if I hit Ctrl + C twice in quick succession.
Another thing you can do is set the Trigger Command to disabled, and then set a hotkey on the "Run Triggers Now" function (Settings > HotKeys tab).
Hope that helps!
Jacob Munson
9 discussion posts
I actually have it setup like your second suggestion, but I just realized I didn't understand what scrubbing does. It does not remove all formatting leaving just plain text. That is what I want...what can I do to paste with just plain text (no bold, not links, no fonts, no color, etc.)?
The scrubbing should be removing the formatting. Is there still a "Scrub Text" action in the Trigger rule?
Jacob Munson
9 discussion posts
Yes, but just did some testing and the scrubbing doesn't work when the trigger is disabled. However, enabling it also runs the trigger when I copy text, which is not what I want.
Jacob Munson
9 discussion posts
Yep, I did some more testing to verify. If I disable the trigger, copy some formatted text and paste, it keeps the formatting. If I then enable the trigger, paste the same formatted text using my hotkey, it scrubs the text. But then if I copy formatted text again it also scrubs. I can't find a way to copy formatted and then paste scrubbed using a hotkey.
Are you disabling the Trigger rule itself, or setting the "Trigger Command Setting" drop-down to "Disabled" while leaving the rule itself enabled?
Jacob Munson
9 discussion posts
Genius! I had disabled the trigger command itself. I just tried enabling that and then disabling the Trigger Command Setting and now it does exactly what I wanted. Thanks!
No worries, glad to hear it!
taboo_
7 discussion posts
I had the same enquiry and was able to follow along to get the same result. The only issue I have with it is this.
If I copy text with colours and formatting and then use a hotkey to "run trigger on clipboard text and paste" I get exactly what I want: the thing I copied but pasted as plain text.
However! The issue I now have is that if I want to later paste the thing I originally copied with its original formatting I'm out of luck as the trigger has fundamentally changed the original "copy" once it ran a trigger on it.
Maybe the way I want to use the app isn't as it's intended - but for me the point of a clipboard manager is that I can perpetually store things I've copied knowing I can always bring them back at a later stage. Is there a way to make "running a trigger" create a new entry in the clipboard while keeping the original copy? Or is running a trigger always destructive to the original copy?
Thanks!!!