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The functionality of this simple script is there in a few clipboard management scripts already posted (and in a few freeware utilities, like PureText), but if you don't need other fancy features, this one is short and fast. (The simple method Chris described here often fails.)Ctrl-Win-V pastes the text content of the clipboard, leaving it unchanged, so Ctrl-V would still paste formatted text with pictures, if it was in the Clipboard. It is very useful if you paste text from websites into MS Word or Lotus Notes, where they look weird with unusual indentation, font, color, etc. Sleep 50 was necessary in my PC, because setting up the clipboard happens in the background, parallel to the script. If it was not finished when Ctrl-V is sent, the old content was used. Experiment with other values. Sleep 250 should be enough even for the slowest PC's.

If you know, you only need the text content of the selection, but many times, you could save time and memory if the clipboard is converted to text:Ctrl-Win-C/X copies/cuts the selection to the clipboard and converts it to text.

This is going to be great. Similar to Skrommels PlainPaste, but the code is easier for me to understand and will fit nicely in my ini file. I'm going to be using this starting tonight.

very nice, useful, and elegant. simple too. I'm using it already. perfect.
By the way what I was looking for was the converter to plain text on the 'copy/cut' keys (rather than on the paste keys). Most such converters do it on the paste key. So your second solution was especially perfect for me.
I needed it that way because of a particular program I use where I have to use a menu command to paste, so it had to be converted on the front end...

Excellent!

Already in my AutoHotkey.ahk

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Very good!!!

hi - i've been using lazlo's plain-text-copy script for a while, and its been great. Recently I tried to map the hotkey to the mouse, and I ran into trouble. Wondering whats going on.

The script i'm using is this:



all i did was change the hotkey to:

lwin & lbutton::

When I open notepad and try to copy some text using lwin & lbutton, windows tries to close notepad (I get the "would you like to save your work?" prompt).

any ideas why i'm not able to map this to a mouse button? I've also tried variations like "lctrl & rbutton". It only seems happy if the hotkey is limited to the keyboard, not the mouse.

thanks!

(I should add that a line like "lwin & rbutton::send ^v" works fine for pasting, even when mapped to the mouse like that).

Changetootherwise it sends Ctrl+N.

THanks! works perfectly.

why did it send control-N? because "lbutton" ends with an "N"?

Yes.

Is it possible to modify this script so that he'd work with Unicode characters? Now, for example, if cyrillic characters are copied, trash letters like "ââèäó ñïåöèôèê" are pasted.

If you want to remove formatting from Unicode text use this:It does not work if the Clipboard contains pictures (too).

I have a modified version to remove white space and new line marks and that avoids "pasting" because that can trigger unnecessary paste options in Microsoft Office:



Updates May 16, 2008

Thanks! It finally works with MS Office, but rather than paste instantly, it "types" the clipboard, and therefore is not for large text fragments.

Yeah, I had it "type" the clipboard rather than paste, because it annoyed me to have paste options or automatic formatting applied when pasting. However, you can use SendPlay for something paste-like.

PS I updated the script to prevent issues sending text with characters that get escaped.